Popular Science Lecture - 68

Understanding the Heftiest Things We Know: Giant Distant Black Holes


Venue: Anderson Hall,
Madras Christian College
Tambaram

February 07, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Organised by Department of Physics(sfs), MCC, Chennai & Tamil Nadu Science Forum

About Program







This is part of its efforts to popularize science to the general public and students who are pursuing science as their career. TNSF attempt to focus on students on higher science as everyone knows that learning of science at college within the curriculum is not enough to acquire holistic knowledge of science at the appropriate time. Hence, to fill the gap between what students are acquiring through the curriculum and what it is required, TNSF is planning its activities on higher science to students who are pursuing higher education.




About the Lecture

Contemporary astrophysics uses state-of-the-art technology to unravel the unknown, reaching into the cosmic depths of our universe. Among the many discoveries that have followed are the heftiest things we know, namely giant black holes that inhabit the centres of galaxies. The early evidence for these intriguing objects that emerged in the middle of the last century effectively rested on the Sherlock-Holmes argument. Today, however, we have the most direct evidence possible for black holes, got through the sharpest eyes that technology can make. She will cover some of the threads in this fascinating story.

தற்கால வானியற்பியல் அறியப்படாதவற்றை அவிழ்க்க அதிநவீன தொழில்நுட்பத்தைப் பயன்படுத்துகிறது, நமது பிரபஞ்சத்தின் அண்ட ஆழத்தை அடைகிறது. பல கண்டுபிடிப்புகளுக்கு மத்தியில் நமக்குத் தெரிந்த மிகப் பெரிய விஷயங்கள், அதாவது மாபெரும் கருந்துளைகள் அவை விண்மீன் திரள்களின் மையங்களில் வாழ்கின்றன.

SCHEDULE

Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm - February 07, 2024

Attendenace Registration starts at 03:30 pm

4:00 pm

Introduction

4:10 pm

Professor Prajval Shastri
Emeritus Scientist, Raman Research Institute,Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRAR

Understanding the Heftiest Things We Know: Giant Distant Black Holes

5:00 pm

Q & A

Speakers

Prajval Shastri

Professor Prajval Shastri

Professor Prajval Shastri is an astrophysicist, formerly at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and specializes in the area of phenomenology of active galaxies driven by supermassive blackholes using multi-wavelength observations ranging from radio to X-ray wavelengths.
She investigates the physics of accreting central supermassive black holes in distant galaxies and their impact on star formation in their hosts, using multi-wavelength data. She uses imaging and spectroscopy at frequencies ranging from radio to gamma-rays for this purpose. She studies the systematics of the observed properties of the bipolar synchrotron-emitting jets of plasma that are launched by these black holes, and their relationship with the nuclear environment of the accreting black holes, as well as their host galaxy properties.

Venue

Anderson Hall,
Madras Christian College
Tambaram

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