17–20 Jun 2024
National Galleries of Scotland
Europe/London timezone

Primordial Black Holes - Positivist Perspective and Quantum Quiddity

17 Jun 2024, 10:00
20m
National Galleries of Scotland

National Galleries of Scotland

The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL Scotland

Speaker

Dr Florian Kühnel (MPP & LMU Munich)

Description

I review the observational evidence for primordial black holes from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. As I will show, all of these (over 20) may be explained by a single and simple unified model, naturally shaped by the thermal history of the Universe. In the second part of my talk, I will comment on the novel feature of vorticity in black holes, which may yield the very first astrophysical observable for quantum effects in these compact bodies.

Primary author

Dr Florian Kühnel (MPP & LMU Munich)

Presentation materials