OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Black holes, conceived as mathematical possibilities centuries ago, are now established as an astrophysical reality: over 100 million black holes reside within our galaxy alone. Consisting of a singularity, where our current theories of physics break down, and surrounded by an event horizon, from within which no signal can ever escape, they are quite unlike anything else in the Universe. Yet despite their mysterious nature, in the past two decades we have made extraordinary observational breakthroughs in understanding black holes. Rob Fender’s research group has been leading on a series of discoveries using a new generation of vast radio telescope arrays. In this lecture, he will present these breakthroughs, and discuss what lies ahead in the coming decades and centuries.
