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Did you know "monster eater" black holes can also eject mass? Join us to learn how they spread matter to the surroundings and influence the cosmic environment!
This lecture is open to all and recommended for adults and students above 9th grade.
Title: Black Holes & Spin-offs
Speaker: Prof. Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford)
Abstract: The popular notion of a black hole "sucking in everything" from its surroundings only happens very close to a black hole. Far away, the pull of the black hole is identical to that of anything else of the same mass. However, black holes do give rise to many remarkable phenomena such as extragalactic quasars and, in our own Galaxy, microquasars. This is because gravity is not the only law of physics that must be obeyed. Matter can be spun off from near black holes in the form of winds and jets that spread through their surroundings and thus cause black holes to have tremendous cosmic influence many light years beyond their event horizons. In this lecture, I will describe various approaches that I employ to investigate these phenomena, and their spin-offs.
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