PIRSA:09020024

Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon

Narayan, R. (2009). Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/09020024

Narayan, Ramesh. Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 18, 2009, https://pirsa.org/09020024 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:09020024,
            doi = {10.48660/09020024},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/09020024},
            author = {Narayan, Ramesh},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2009},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:09020024 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Ramesh Narayan Harvard University

DOI 10.48660/09020024
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series

Abstract

Astronomers have discovered many candidate black holes in the universe and have studied their properties in ever-increasing detail. Over the last decade, a few groups have developed observational tests for the presence of event horizons in candidate black holes. The talk will discuss one of these tests, which indicates that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy must have a horizon.