In a remarkable work published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) as an Editor's suggestion, William East and Frans Pretorius (E&P) studied the non-linear growth of the superradiant instability. In a subsequent paper to appear also in PRL, Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu showed that the endpoint matches hairy black holes discovered by the Gr@v team.
Gr@v members P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro were amongst the participants of the 27th workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG 27). Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers.
Five of the ground-breaking gravitational wave detections by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration have been interpreted as black hole collisions forming a more massive black hole. It is hard to demonstrate conclusively that these objects are indeed black holes, and there is a lively debate on the intriguing possibility that other, more exotic alternatives could explain the observations. In an article published in Physical Review Letters, Gr@v members P.
The Higgs vacuum is a metastable state with lifetime longer than the age of the universe, but the vacuum can be destabilised by microscopic black hole seeds. The nucleation process is a nice example of black hole thermodynamics.
Alexandre Pombo successfully finished his Physics M.Sc. at Aveiro University, on October 10th 2017, by defending a thesis with title "Q-balls spectroscopy and construction of boson stars". This thesis was supervised by Gr@v researchers and examined by Prof. Yves Brihaye, from the University of Mons, Belgium. Well done Alexandre!
Helgi Rúnarsson successfully defended his PhD thesis "Kerr black holes with scalar and Proca hair". The exam took place at the University of Aveir, on October 9th 2017. The thesis was supervised by Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu and former member J. C. Degollado, now at UNAM (Mexico). Congratulations Helgi!
Full Name: Jorge Filipe Mónico Delgado
Position: Junior Research Fellow (2022-23)
Degree: Ph.D in Physics, Aveiro University, 2022
Research area: Strong gravity; Black holes; Mathematical Physics
Office: 11.2.4, Mathematics Department, Aveiro University
Phone: +351 917 376 380
Email: jorgedelgado@ua.pt
Position: Long term research fellow - CEEC Junior research position (6 years)
Research Area: Strong Gravity
Office: 11.3.45, Dep. Mathematics, University of Aveiro
Full Name: Alexandre M. Pombo
Position: PostDoc at CEICO
Degree: PhD in Physics
Email: pomboalexandremira@ua.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-5815-2758