Name: 🇬🇧 Does size matter?
Start: 2026-05-20T19:00:00
End: 2026-05-20T21:00:00
Location: Ostello Bello Grande

Black holes come in very different sizes, from small systems in our galaxy to the largest objects in the Universe. But does being bigger really make a difference? A journey across cosmic scales to find out what changes… and what doesn’t.

Kevin Alabarta Jativa

Kevin Alabarta Jativa (INAF)

Kevin Alabarta has followed black holes and neutron stars across the electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to optical and infrared wavelengths. Astronomy has taken him to the UK, the Netherlands and Abu Dhabi, and now to INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, where he is part of the SOXS team, working on a new INAF-led spectrograph installed at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. He studies how compact objects accrete matter and evolve over time, and enjoys explaining astronomy clearly, simply, and sometimes a bit differently.

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Altri eventi a Milano

Ostello Bello Grande - Altri eventi

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Milano

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La statistica: strumenti per capire i dati