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05-05-2022
[Thursday 5 May] EVN Seminar: Intermediate-mass black holes in the era of radio astronomy
| Submitter: | Benito Marcote (on behalf of the EVN Seminars O.C.) |
| Description: | A new edition of the EVN Online Seminars will take place on Thursday May 5 at 10:00. Mar Mezcua (from the Institute of Space Sciences, ICE-CSIC) will be our speaker, and her talk would be focused on how to study intermediate-mass black holes through interferometric radio observations. For a summary of the talk: Black holes of 100–100,000 solar masses formed at redshifts of z < 20 are currently the best candidates to being the seeds of the first supermassive black holes that power the quasars detected at z ~ 6–7. Studying this population of high-redshift seeds has so far only been possible by investigating the possible local relics of those that did not become supermassive, which can be found in the local Universe as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in dwarf galaxies. I will show how radio interferometric observations have been key to identify and characterize actively accreting IMBHs in the local Universe and out to z ~ 3. The next generation of radio telescopes such as the SKA will open a new window on detecting seed black holes at birth, probing the formation pathways of the first quasars in the Universe. Please join via Zoom (Room ID: 885 4531 2932) or via YouTube (where the seminar will be streamed in real-time and stored for later view). For further information on the EVN Seminars, please look at the EVN website. |
| Copyright: | JIVE & Mar Mezcua |
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