Black Holes

Black holes are regions of spacetime so dense that nothing can escape their gravitational pull - not even light. Researchers at Penn State study black holes theoretically in the context of general relativity and candidate theories for quantum gravity as well as observationally through electromagnetic and gravitational wave surveys.


IGC members who study Black Holes

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Adrian del Rio Vega
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B.S. Sathyaprakash
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Cort Posnansky
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Chad Hanna
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David Radice
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Divya Singh
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Eugenio Bianchi
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Ish Gupta
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James Gurian
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Joshua Black
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Kallan Berglund
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Maitraya Bhattacharyya
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Michael Eracleous
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Michael Ryan
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Shio Sakon
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Surendra Padamata
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Shomik Adhicary
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Steinn Sigurdsson
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Unnati Akhouri
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Victoria Niu
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W. Niel Brandt
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Yasaman Homayouni
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Yuexing Li

News about Black Holes

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2019-06-01: Black Holes, Dark Matter & Quantum Gravity, what’s new in Loop Quantum Gravity
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2019-06-16: Two probable black-hole mergers spotted in first weeks after gravitational-wave detector is updated
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2021-02-24: The IGC ApJL “Dark sirens to resolve the Hubble-Lemaître tension” was highlighted in AAS Nova.

IGC projects about Black Holes

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Cosmic Surveys
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Sub-solar Mass Black Holes as a Gravitational Wave Probe of the Hidden Universe
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Discovering Black Holes and Neutron Stars with LIGO