PIRSA:17010081

Supermassive Black Holes in the Local Universe

Ma, C. (2017). Supermassive Black Holes in the Local Universe. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17010081

Ma, Chung-Pei. Supermassive Black Holes in the Local Universe. Perimeter Institute, Jan. 27, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17010081 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17010081,
            doi = {10.48660/17010081},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17010081},
            author = {Ma, Chung-Pei},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {Supermassive Black Holes in the Local Universe},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {jan},
            note = {PIRSA:17010081 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Chung-Pei Ma

University of California, Berkeley

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Abstract

Black holes of 1 million to 20 billion solar masses have been found at the centers of galaxies.

New observational data and improved orbit models in the past several years have substantially expanded the sample of black holes with dynamically measured masses.  I will describe recent progress in discovering a new population of ultra-massive black holes and its impact on our understanding of the symbiotic relationships between black holes and galaxies.  I will discuss the implications for the ongoing pulsar timing array experiments searching for nano-Hertz gravitational waves from merging supermassive black hole binaries.