Video URL
https://pirsa.org/13050001David Defeats Goliath: How Ultralight Fields Affect The Dynamics of Massive Black Holes
APA
Pani, P. (2013). David Defeats Goliath: How Ultralight Fields Affect The Dynamics of Massive Black Holes. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/13050001
MLA
Pani, Paolo. David Defeats Goliath: How Ultralight Fields Affect The Dynamics of Massive Black Holes. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May. 09, 2013, https://pirsa.org/13050001
BibTex
@misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:13050001, doi = {10.48660/13050001}, url = {https://pirsa.org/13050001}, author = {Pani, Paolo}, keywords = {Strong Gravity}, language = {en}, title = {David Defeats Goliath: How Ultralight Fields Affect The Dynamics of Massive Black Holes}, publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics}, year = {2013}, month = {may}, note = {PIRSA:13050001 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/13050001}} }
Paolo Pani Instituto Superior Tecnico - Departamento de Física
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type
Scientific Series
Abstract
In the last few years several interesting phenomena associated to the interaction between massive black holes and fundamental bosonic fields have been discovered. I present a selection of them, including superradiance instabilities of spin-0, spin-1 and spin-2 fields, floating orbits in extreme-mass ratio inspirals and black-hole spontaneous scalarization. The theoretical potential of these effectsas almost-model-independent smoking guns for exotic particles and modified gravity, as well as their limitations in realistic astrophysical scenarios, are discussed.