| Black Holes: Theory versus Observations November 4, 2005 Black holes, objects so dense that even light cannot escape their relentless gravitational tug, are one of the most remarkable predictions made by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Astronomers have discovered many candidate black holes and are studying them in ever-increasing detail, allowing comparison of observations with theoretical predictions. This lecture will describe recent progress in our understanding of these fascinating objects. |
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Ramesh Narayan is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University. His research interests include accretion disks, active galactic nuclei, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, image processing, pulsars, scintillation, and x-ray binaries. He has recieved numerous awards and distinguished lectureships around the world, including the George Darwin Lecture of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK) and the Biermann Lecture of the Max Planck Istitut fuer Astrophysik (Germany), as well as awards from Princeton and Caltech. He has also chaired several advisory committees on gravitational and theoretical physics. | |
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