Dr. Chris Willott
May 14, 2003
7:30pm
University of Victoria, Elliott Building, Room 061
Black holes are a favorite of science fiction stories, but in recent years
astronomers have come to accept their existence as a natural consequence of the
laws of gravity. It is now thought that all reasonably large galaxies have
massive (more than a million times the mass of the sun) black holes at their
centres. I will discuss the evidence for the existence of these black holes and
the important roles they play both in the way that galaxies formed and the way
we observe the distant universe.
Chris is currently a Research Associate at the Herzberg Institute of
Astrophysics. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of Oxford (2000-2002), the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in
the Canary Islands (1998-2000). Chris has a PhD from University of Oxford
(1995-1998).
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