Kerr black holes with Proca hair
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Carlos Herdeiro
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GAP room
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Strong Gravity News & Events
The ESO/GRAVITY instrument: probing the Galactic Centre supermassive black-hole
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Paulo Garcia (CENTRA and University of Porto)
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GAP room
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Abstract: The ESO/GRAVITY is an adaptive optics and fringe tracker assisted K-band interferometric spectrograph. The instrument development started in the last decade and reached first fringes with the auxiliary telescopes in December 2015.
Resolving black hole singularities
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Diego Rubiera-Garcia (Lisbon U.)
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GAP room
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Abstract: We discuss how space-time singularities inside black holes can be resolved using the Palatini approach for modified gravity. In this approach metric and affine connection are taken as independent variables.
Hairy black holes can form dynamically
In 2014, it was found that black hole (BH) solutions in General Relativity exist in stationary equilibrium with (good) matter: hairy BHs. An investigation published in Physical Review Letters shows, in a toy model, that analogous hairy BHs can form dynamically.
Data for Kerr black holes with Proca hair
Here, the numerical data described in the paper "Kerr black holes with Proca hair", arXiv:1603.02687 [gr-qc] [1], is made available for public use.
Mengjie Wang's PhD exam
Gr@v's Ph.D. student Mengjie Wang successfully defended his doctoral thesis with title "Quantum and classical aspects of scalar and vector fields around black holes", on February 29th 2016. Mengjie integrated the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme and was supported by a grant from the IDPASC doctoral programme. Congratulations Mengjie!
Gr@v research in the IJMPD 2015 highlights
The 2015 paper highlights of the International Journal of Modern Physics D, includes the paper "Asymptotically flat black holes with scalar hair: a review" by Gr@v researchers C. Herdeiro and E. Radu.
Detection of Gravitational waves in Portuguese Media
The annuncement about the detection of gravitational waves got the attention of Portuguese media, with some contributions from our group:
Interview in Jornal 2, 11th February 2016
Detection of Gravitational waves
On February 11th 2016, the LIGO collaboration announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves. Our group warmly congratulates LIGO for this extraordinary achievement, which opens up access to a new layer of the physical reality!