{"170381":{"#nid":"170381","#data":{"type":"event","title":"When Galaxies Collide, What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes?","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003EInquiring Minds @ Tech Public Lecture Series: Tamara Bogdanovic, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGalaxy collisions and mergers are a common consequence of the structure formation in the universe. We know that they happen because we see a number of beautiful examples on the sky through the \u0022eyes\u0022 of many astronomical observatories. It is also thought that almost every galaxy (including our own, the Milky Way) harbors a supermassive black hole at its center. I will discuss the \u0022knowns\u0022 and \u0022unknowns\u0022 in the evolution of supermassive black hole pairs that form in collisions of their host galaxies and end their cosmic journey when the two black holes merge due to the emission of gravitational waves.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Ch2 class=\u0022mainTitle\u0022\u003EWhen galaxies collide, what happens to their supermassive black holes?\u003C\/h2\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When galaxies collide, what happens to their supermassive black holes?"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2012-11-12 11:37:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:01:11","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-17T09:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-17T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-17T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-17 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-17 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-17 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/node\/856","title":"https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/node\/856"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/seminars-colloquia\/series\/public-lecture\/tamara-bogdanovic-20121117","title":"https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/seminars-colloquia\/series\/public-lecture\/tam..."}],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}