The Formation and Early Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes

The Joint Space-Science Institute (JSI), a partnership between the University of Maryland and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, will hold the 2024 JSI Workshop on The Formation and Early Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes, November 20-22nd, 2024. The workshop will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, located in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD.

This conference will bring together specialists from the astrophysics and physics community to discuss the latest observational results and theoretical models for the origin and early growth of supermassive black holes. Topics to be discussed include:

  • Theoretical models of supermassive black hole seeding

  • Observational constraints on BH seeding and early growth

  • Theory of rapid accretion

  • Analogues and constraints from low-z observations

  • Merger-driven SMBH growth and Multi-messenger astrophysics

  • Future prospects

Registration is now open!

 

 

2024 JSI Workshop