Researcher Breakfast: Black holes and gravitational waves

Name: Researcher Breakfast: Black holes and gravitational waves
Start: 2025-11-06T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-06T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Universitetsbiblioteket i Stavanger

Schedule

Thu Nov 06 2025 at 09:00 am to 10:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Universitetsbiblioteket i Stavanger | Stavanger, RO

Alex Bentley Nielsen shares the latest news about black holes and gravitational waves.
Research means exploring the boundaries of knowledge. In physics, black holes represent the boundary of our knowledge about the Universe. We have no consistent theory of how black holes behave beyond Einstein’s theory.
We know that Einstein’s theory must be incomplete somewhere, but we don’t know where and we don’t know what is missing.
Despite this, during my research career we have learnt a lot about black holes out there, in our Universe. Black holes have gone from being a fringe interest of theorists, to being a central topic in astronomy. They are perhaps even one of reasons for why we humans are around to ask questions about them.
One of the ways we learn about black holes is using gravitational waves. The latest results in gravitational waves confirm a theory of Stephen Hawking about how the entropy of black holes grows during the collision of two s black holes. '
This will be discussed by professor Alex Bentley Nielsen. He will show some of the latest results and happily answer any question.
Breakfast will be served from 9 am. Bentleys talk starts at 9.15. Please sign up to confirm your attendance: https://nettskjema.no/a/557071#/page/1
Language: English.