PIRSA:10040002

Video URL

https://pirsa.org/10040002

Light Shows from Supermassive Binary Black Hole Mergers

Laguna, P. (2010). Light Shows from Supermassive Binary Black Hole Mergers. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/10040002

Laguna, Pablo. Light Shows from Supermassive Binary Black Hole Mergers. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Apr. 08, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10040002 

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            doi = {10.48660/10040002},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10040002},
            author = {Laguna, Pablo},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Light Shows from Supermassive Binary Black Hole Mergers},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2010},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:10040002 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/10040002}}
          }

Pablo Laguna The University of Texas at Austin

Talk numberPIRSA:10040002
DOI10.48660/10040002
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series

Abstract

Coincident detections of electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures from the merger of supermassive binary black holes are the next observational grand challenge. Such detections will provide a wealth of opportunities to study gravitational physics, accretion physics, and cosmology. Understanding the conditions under which coincidences of electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures arise during supermassive black hole mergers is therefore of paramount importance, requiring multi-scale/physics computational modeling. I will given an overview of these numerical studies and in particular focus on our effort to model the merger of supermassive black hole binaries in the presence of gaseous environments.