Grad Seminar: Extracting Energy from Black Holes
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Posted on Dec 2, 2013
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Seminars and Colloquia
Graduate Seminar
Extracting Energy from Black Holes
Syed Moeez Hassan (UNB)
Thursday, November 28, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Tilley Hall Room 5
Einstein’s General Relativity is a theory of gravity that explains our universe on large scales. One of the solutions to Einstein’s equations is the Kerr solution which describes a rotating black hole. Roger Penrose suggested a method of extracting energy from such black holes known as the Penrose mechanism. In this talk, I will give an introduction to General Relativity, explain Kerr black holes and look at some of the interesting properties they have. Finally, I will describe the Penrose process of extracting energy from such black holes.
Syed Moeez Hassan is a graduate student of the Mathematics/Statistics GAU
This talk is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
