Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2017
Volume 62, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, January 28–31, 2017; Washington, DC
Session W1: Plenary Session III: Black HolesInvited Plenary Undergraduate
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Chair: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago Room: Ballroom Salon 2/3 |
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
W1.00001: Einstein's Gift: Stellar Mass Black Holes in the LIGO Era Invited Speaker: Laura Cadonati The discovery of gravitational waves from the coalescence of black hole binary systems in LIGO has provided the first evidence for heavy stellar mass black holes. In this talk, I will review the observational evidence for black holes in LIGO data, its astrophysical implications and the plans for the near and long term future of ground based gravitational wave detection of black hole binary coalescences. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
W1.00002: The Most Massive Black Holes in the Local Universe Invited Speaker: Chung-Pei Ma For over three decades, the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in the Virgo Cluster has hosted the most massive known black hole in the local universe. New observational data in the past several years have substantially expanded dynamical measurements of black hole masses at the centers of nearby galaxies. I will describe recent progress in discovering black holes up to twenty billion solar masses. This new population of supermassive black holes is revising our understanding of the symbiotic relationship between black holes and galaxies, and of the gravitational wave signals from merging binaries targeted by ongoing pulsar timing array experiments. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
W1.00003: Plenary Talk: Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Unification Invited Speaker: Raphael Bousso The study of black holes has revealed a deep and general connection between quantum information and spacetime geometry. Its origin must lie in a quantum theory of gravity, so it offers a valuable hint in our search for a unified theory. Precise formulations of this relation recently led to new insights in Quantum Field Theory, some of which have been rigorously proven. An important example is the first universal lower bound on the local energy density. [Preview Abstract] |
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