Rogue Supermassive Black Holes with Yale’s Dr. Michael Tremmel

Astronomers are working to understand what happens when black holes are set free to roam the Milky Way.

Yale’s Dr. Michael Tremmel spoke to John Michael Godier on this episode of Event Horizon about rogue supermassive black holes. They also discussed binary black holes and the physics of galaxy mergers. As well as what would happen if a black hole came near our solar system?

"Wandering Supermassive Black Holes in Milky-Way-mass Halos", Tremmel et al, 2018

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aabc0a

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: N-BODY SHOP SIMULATES THE UNIVERSE:

https://depts.washington.edu/astron/spotlight/research-spotlight-n-body-shop-simulates-the-universe/

Study: Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have ‘unseen’ siblings: https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/24/study-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-may-have-unseen-siblings

Dr. Tremmel's website: https://mtremmel.github.io/research/SMBHdynamics.html

Wandering Supermassive Black Holes and Where to Find Them – Dr. Michael Tremmel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTaxbRSXGk&t=2s

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