Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities
R. Penrose
Phys. Rev. Lett. 14 (1965) 57-59
We can all tell when a movie of some everyday event, such as a kettle boiling or a glass shattering, is run backwards. Similarly, we all feel that we can remember the past and affect the future, not vice versa.
Gr@v contributed to several media coverages of the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize. Expand to know more.
C. Herdeiro was one of the guests of Jornal 2, of RTP2, on October 6th, to talk about the Physics Nobel prize 2020. See the interview here (from 19:52 onwards).
The Scientific background document on the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize mentions the paper by C. Herdeiro and José S. Lemos (from IST Lisbon) on the genesis of the name "black hole" available in the arXiv (in English) and originally pubished in "Gazeta de Física" (in Portuguese).
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy." Our group is thrilled by this recognition of Black Hole science by the Nobel Committee and heartly congratulates Roger, Reinhard and Andrea!
Neutron stars provide an exciting field of study, not only for the many open questions regarding their inner composition, but also for some of the most puzzling astrophysical phenomena observed in Na
IJMPD published in August 2020 a special issue devoted to the Fifth Amazonian Symposium on Physics, with a collection of selected papers. Our group co-organized the event and co-edited this issue, both led by Prof. L. Crispino, from UFPa, Brazil.
A call for a research grant in the fields of strong gravity/particle physics, for a M.Sc. holder, is open until October 13th 2020. See the call in the attached file or in the eracareers portal.
