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The video highlights a general overview about astrophysical black holes. Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity and in the past five years there have been remarkable advancements in the understanding of the physics and astrophysics of these objects thanks to a new generation of observational facilities. Topics covered in the video include historical overview, basic concepts, classifications, spin measurements, and testing fundamental physics about black holes. The video is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of science in general. Viewers can learn what we know about black holes from General Relativity, what we know about black holes from astronomical observations, and what we expect to learn about these objects in the near future with new observational facilities.
Introduction
The video highlights historical overview, basic concepts, classifications, spin measurements, and testing fundamental physics about black holes.
About The Author
Cosimo Bambi is **e **de Junior Chair Professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University. He received the Laurea degree from Florence University in 2003 and the PhD degree from Ferrara University in 2007. He was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at IPMU/The University of Tokyo and at LMU Munich. He joined Fudan University at the end of 2012. He has received numerous awards, including the Magnolia Silver Award from the Municipality of Shanghai in 2018, the Xu Guangqi Prize from the Embassy of Italy in Bei**g in 2018, a JSPS Invitation Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2016, and the 1000 Young Talent Award from the State Council of the People’s Republic of China in 2012. Professor Bambi has worked on a number of topics in the fields of high-energy astrophysics, particle cosmology, and gravity.
About this video
- Author(s)
- Cosimo Bambi
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17916-7
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-031-17916-7
- Total duration
- 49 min
- Publisher
- Springer, Cham
- Copyright information
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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Video Transcript
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Welcome to this video series on astrophysical black holes. I am Cosimo Bambi from Fudan University. This is the table of contents of the video series. We start with a historical overview of the field, from the first theoretical speculations to the latest astrophysical observation. The second section introduces some basic concepts. What is a black hole? What is an event horizon?
From astronomical observation we know three black hole classes– stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes, and intermediate mass black holes. These three groups will be reviewed in the third section. Apart their mass, astrophysical black holes are characterized by their spin. As we will see in the fourth section, in the past 10-15 years there have been significant effort to measure black hole spins.
Spin measurements are important because they can help us to understand how black holes formed and evolved. In the last section, we will see how, today, black holes can be used as laboratories for testing fundamental physics.