Black hole evaporation and quantum gravity Hawking's seminal result, that black holes behave as black bodies with a non-vanishing temperature, suggests that black holes should evaporate. However, Hawking's derivation is incomplete as it neglects the backreaction between radiation and geometry. Including it requires to incorporate quantum gravity. This talk focuses...

Satellite Constellations & Astronomy: What is the problem? What are we doing about it? In recent years, large satellite constellations have been launched into low-Earth orbit to provide low-latency, global communication coverage. As a result, the number of satellites in orbit has surged from approximately 2,500 to over 10,000, raising...

Optical spectroscopy and imaging of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Blazars are the brightest persistent sources in the high-energy and very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray sky. Because their UV/optical radiation is often dominated by non-thermal, and, in the case of BL Lacs, featureless continuum radiation, the determination of their redshift...

Finding evidence for self-enrichment and supermassive stars in forming globular clusters Self-enrichment is one of the leading explanations for chemical anomalies in globular clusters. In this scenario, a polluter star enriches a forming cluster with its yields, likely ejecting radioactive 26Al into its surroundings. Young massive star clusters, as potential...

Probing the Finely-Resolved 100 TeV Gamma-Ray Sky for Ultra-Heavy Dark Matter - Dark100 abstract TBA