Speaker
Description
Black hole astrophysics has taken a dramatic leap forward in recent years thanks to the detection of gravitational waves from merging stellar-mass black holes and the first image of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87*, opening up the exciting opportunity to probe physics in curved spacetime. To this end, it is of prime importance to have an accurate description of how matter and light behave under extreme physical conditions. My work aims at understanding how particle acceleration and the emission of non-thermal radiation proceed in relativistic magnetized plasmas such as those forming around rotating black holes. In this talk, I will summarize our current efforts to reproduce a black hole magnetosphere from scratch on National supercomputers using ab-initio particle-in-cell simulations, with the ultimate goal to bridge the gap between theoretical models and observations.
| Field | Compact objects (supernovae, black holes, neutron stars) |
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