Tonight's talk looked at the lifecycle of binary supermassive black holes: how they form in galaxy collisions, how they kick surrounding stars out of the galaxy, how they eventually merge and finally, how we can find these exciting objects.
Eugene Vasiliev, University of Edinburgh “Life and Adventures of Binary Supermassive Black Holes”
Following the talk, Brian gave his Sky Notes for November. Alan showed some images he was processing using new software (no video or images available as yet) and Bill showed a new book he had purchased.
