PIRSA:13050001

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https://pirsa.org/13050001

David Defeats Goliath: How Ultralight Fields Affect The Dynamics of Massive Black Holes

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

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 

          @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/pirsa/13050001}}
          }

Paolo Pani Instituto Superior Tecnico - Departamento de Física

Talk numberPIRSA:13050001
DOI10.48660/13050001
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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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 effects
as almost-model-independent smoking guns for exotic particles and modified gravity, as well as their limitations in realistic astrophysical scenarios, are discussed.