ECAP Seminar: Chris Belczynski

ECAP, room 307 Erwin-Rommel-Str 1, Erlangen

The Astrophysics of BH-BH/NS-NS Mergers with LIGO/Virgo I will discuss the astrophysical importance of the recent LIGO/Virgo direct detections of gravitational-waves. Despite majority of the expectations, it was not neutron star mergers being detected first, but the series of exotic massive black hole mergers. I will describe the leading theories...