Speaker
Richard Pires Brito
(CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico)
Description
Boson clouds can form through superradiant instabilities of ultralight bosons around spinning black holes. The formation of boson clouds leads to a number of potentially detectable signatures, among them the possibility that they can affect the dynamics of binary black hole systems. In this talk I will review recent work aiming at studying extreme-mass-ratio systems in which a small compact object evolves around a massive black hole surrounded by a boson cloud.
Author
Richard Pires Brito
(CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico)
