Members of the NewFunFiCO network got together in Valencia from 20-22 May 2025 to discuss many aspects related to compact objects and fundamental fields. Truly enjoyable meeting. Thank you to the Valencia group, especially Nico Sanchis-Gual for the great meeting.
In the first half of May 2025, Gr@v hosted many wonderful collegues, including Isabel Cordero (U. Valencia, Spain),
We discuss recent results on using boson stars with a solitonic potential as models of ultracompact objects, which could mimic black holes in such phenomenology as VLBI images and gravitational wave signals.
Full Name: Goncalo Filipe Mota Goncalves
Postion: PhD Student
Degrees: Msc in Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, 2024; BSC in Physics, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Coimbra, 2021
We examine the images and shadows of thin accretion disks around rotating hairy black holes characterized by two non-trivial, time-periodic scalar fields, whose target space possesses non-flat Gaussian curvature.
Laura Bernard visited us in the beginning of April 2025. Thank you for the visit and seminar Laura!
Zeus Sales Moreira successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on March 31st 2025, which was advised by C. Herdeiro. The committee was composed by Profs. Darío Nunez, Eugen Radu, Alberto Saa and Gonzalmo Olmo and unanimously praised the excellent work of the candidate. Congratulations Zeus and all the best for the future!
The NewFunFiCO mid term meeting took place online on March 20 bringing together many consortium members, to share their experiences with the REA.
Black holes are the most massive objects in the Universe and provide an ideal testing ground for gravity in the strong field regime.
