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DTSTART:20090428T203000Z
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DTSTAMP:20260313T115538Z
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LOCATION:6515 Sterling Hall
SUMMARY:How Black Holes get their Kicks\, Astronomy Colloquium\, Kelle
 y Holley-Bockelman\, Vanderbilt University
DESCRIPTION:Finally\, computer simulations can merge two black holes i
 n full general relativity -- and the latest results reveal a big surpr
 ise: when two black holes merge\, the new black hole gets a gravitatio
 nal wave kick with a velocity as high as 4000 km/s. A kick this fast c
 an send even a supermassive black hole careening out of its home galax
 y. How\, then\, do galaxies - especially low mass ones in the early un
 iverse - retain supermassive black holes after they merge? We will exp
 lore this and other consequences of kicking black holes in this talk.<
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1521
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