Lunch seminar Volker Perlick, ZARM, University of Bremen
| When: | We 27-11-2019 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Where: | FSE-Building 5111.0135 |
Title: Calculating and observing the shadow of a black hole
Abstract:
In April 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration presented an image of the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87. In this talk I discuss how the shadow of a Schwarzschild or Kerr black hole comes about, how its boundary curve can be analytically calculated, and how the image of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration was actually produced.