8–12 juil. 2019
Cité des Congrès
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

GRAVITY: seeing black holes

8 juil. 2019, 17:30
30m
Salle J (Cité des Congrès)

Salle J

Cité des Congrès

Orateur

Thibaut Paumard (LESIA - CNRS/Observatoire de Paris)

Description

The GRAVITY instrument has been installed on the VLTI in 2015 with the
goal of probing the space-time metric near SgrA*, the black-hole at the
Galactic Center, through the orbits of stars at a few light hours and
material very near the event horizon. Those goals have been reached in
2018. I will recall the history of Galactic Center research in the past
fifty years, describe the GRAVITY instrument and present those
tantalizing results.

Choix de session parallèle 1.1 Les diverses facettes du centre galactique : des abords du trou noir à son environnement plus lointain.

Auteur principal

Thibaut Paumard (LESIA - CNRS/Observatoire de Paris)

Co-auteur

GRAVITY Collaboration

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