Black holes are the most massive objects in the Universe and provide an ideal testing ground for gravity in the strong field regime.
One of the most efficient energy sources in the universe is the matter accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Since magnetic fields are ubiquitous everywhere, the accretion flow is expected to be magnetized in nature, where the large-scale magnetic fields inside the disks are commonly rooted either from the companion star or the interstellar medium.
A meeting of the NewFunFiCO network will take place in Valencia, from 20-22 May 2025. More information can be found here.
In the last week of January 2025 we received the visits of Profs. Luis Carlos Crispino and Kunihito Uzawa. Great to have you here!
The CIDMA meetin 2025 took place on January 20th 2025. Our group contributed with two presentations by C. Herdeiro and R. Luna. The meeting webpage can be found here.
Nuno M. Santos successfullly defended his Ph.D. thesis on January 10 2025. The defense was online and the degree awarded with distinction from IST-Lisbon. Well done Nuno and all the best for what comes next!
The XVII black holes workshop took place at the University of Aveiro, from 19-20 December 2024. Over 70 participants got involved into two intense days of seminars and discussions on this growing and fascinating research topic. See you all in Lisbon in 2025! UA coverage here.
Gr@v co-authored the article in the journal Computers in Biology and Medicine, with title “Next-generation chemotherapy treatments based on black hole algorithms: From cancer remission to chronic disease management”. This is an interdisciplinary research applying ideas from black hole physics to create a new methodology in chemotherapy treatments. See here the UA coverage.
Gr@v members C. Herdeiro, H. Olivares, and J. Novo delivered talks in the workshop "Lensing and Wave Optics in Strong Gravity", held at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) in Vienna, Austria, from December 9-14th. The workshop also featured contributions from Gr@v members I. Sengo and P. Cunha, with P. Cunha additionally serving as a co-organizer.
An 8-month post-doctoral grant is open within the project 2024.05617.CERN, "Towards precision tests of ultralight dark matter with imaging and gravitational waves". Applications should be submitted between 15 December 2024 and 5 January 2025. More info in the attached files and the Euraxess site.