[AstroNet] Venue for ACGC public talk on black holes - Monday 30 August

[Wendy Williams]

The venue for the ACGC public talk on Black Holes is the New Science Lecture
Theatre on Residence Road, University of  Cape Town.

MAP:
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   Date:  Monday, 30 August 2010
Time:  13:00
Venue:  New Science Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Bob Wald (University of Chicago)

Title: "Black Holes"

Abstract: A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong
that nothing---not even light---can escape. Black holes arise in nature as
the end products of the complete gravitational collapse of sufficiently
massive bodies. Theoretical developments during the past 40 years have led
to the understanding of a number of remarkable properties of black holes.
Most remarkable is the relationship between certain laws applying to black
holes and the ordinary laws of thermodynamics, particularly the fact
that---due to quantum processes---black holes "emit" thermal radiation. This
talk will review some of the key theoretical results on black holes that
have been obtained thus far and will discuss some of the issues raised by
them.




http://www.acgc.uct.ac.za/

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