Black Hole Growth and Their Host Environments - Shuang Nan Zhang, Tsinghua University from burning the masses Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 14 min 83 sec
✓ Published: 05-Dec-2011

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Living Black HolesnShuang Nan Zhang, nPhysics Department and Center for AstrophysicsnTsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, ChinannExcept for mini- or quantum black holes predicted but not observed so far, all other black holes start up as dead-bodies of massive stars or clusters of stars. Yet, those black holes we can detect and study today are living and interacting with their environments, and sometimes even grow together with their host galaxies if found in centers of galaxies. A stellar mass