Scientific Seminars
Black holes in binaries
Ilya Mandel
Monash University, OzGrav
2023-11-10 11:00 Merate - POE (or virtually at https://meet.google.com/ehi-hpit-bzr)
Recent observational successes are providing a new impetus to the study of binaries containing stellar-mass black holes. I will start with a very brief review of the current understanding of massive binary evolution leading to the formation of black-hole binaries. I will then focus on a few of the outstanding issues in interpreting both X-ray and gravitational-wave observations and propose pathways for improving our understanding of some challenging aspects of binary evolution. |