X-ray view of black-hole activity
- Astronomy
- D-PHYS
From 17 to 19 February 2016, the conference "X-ray View of Black Hole Activity in the Local Universe" takes place on the ETH Hönggerberg campus.
Group photo (click to download a high-resolution version). (Photo: ETH Zurich/D-PHYS Heidi Hostettler)
More than 30 partcipants from all over the world meet in the HIT building to present and discuss the latest results of space-based X-ray missions to observe nearby supermassive black-hole growth (such as external pageNuSTAR, external pageSwift and external pageMaxi). Discussions include current topics in the field as well as the question of what can be learned from future X-ray missions.
The scientific organizing committee is chaired by Michael Koss (Ambizione Fellow in the group of Kevin Schawinski). The conference is sponsored by Swiss National Science foundation.