UConn Physics Colloquium
Profs. Gerald Dunne and Jon Trump
Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Event Details:
Date: Friday, October 30, 2020
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Storrs Campus
Meeting link online: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/jot16106
“Black Holes: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics”
The Nobel Foundation has awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.
See https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/
We review the physics and the significance of these remarkable discoveries. There will be some technical detail but the talk is intended for a general audience.
For more information, contact: Anna Huang at anna.huang@uconn.edu