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Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources and Middle Weight Black Holes
Event Details:
From: 24 May 2010  
To: 26 May 2010  
Address: European Space Astronomy Centre
Villafranca del Castillo
Madrid
Country: Spain
More info: Link to event website

The goal of this workshop is to bring together theorists and observers from the cosmology, X-ray, stellar dynamics, and AGN communities to explore topics of common interest, review new and recent results, and discuss the impact of upcoming observatories and space missions for black hole research.

The workshop will explore the physical nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources:

  • are they a special class of object?
  • are they black holes of more than 30 solar masses?
  • are they accreting in a special way?
  • their possible connection to 'low mass' black holes in the centres of galaxies
  • models for formation of black hole seeds
  • accretion and early growth of low-mass black holes
  • mergers
  • observational searches for intermediate mass black holes in nearby galaxies and star clusters

Last Update: 24 September 2009

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