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We warmly congratulate Prof. On Thursday, April 3, , various companies, organizations, and universities across Germany will open their doors for Girls'Day, a nationwide initiative aimed at inspiring girls to explore career paths in IT, craftsmanship, natural sciences, and technology β fields where women are still underrepresented. Below is an overview of the activities hosted at various participating and collaborating institutes:.
The "Physik hautnah! The event will feature lab presentations by principal investigators, followed by brief presentations from junior scientists showcasing their latest work. Extended discussions will offer ample opportunity for in-depth exchanges. In order to participate, please register for free at the ML-AI portal.
The DoBlack project will investigate the formation of so-called dormant black holes in binary star systems β pairs where one companion is a black hole that shows no signs of mass transfer, typically detectable through X-ray emissions. While black holes detected with gravitational wave interferometers often represent the tip of the iceberg of the population with extreme orbital properties, dormant binaries are thought to be more representative of the black hole population in the local Universe.
To date, only a handful of such systems have been observed. However, the forthcoming fourth data release of the Gaia astrometric satellite is expected to identify several hundreds to thousands of these dormant black holes. Already, Gaia data has led to the discovery of three such systems. The orbital period of the first two of them, Gaia BH1 and BH2 and days, respectively is a puzzle for astrophysical models: too tight to be explained with a non-interacting system and too large for a binary star that evolved via unstable mass transfer.
