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Interview with Roberto Emparan on "La mecánica del caracol"

Title
Artistic impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. The black hole pulls material from a massive, blue companion star toward it.
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NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Interview to
Roberto Emparan, ICREA-ICCUB
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Programme
La mecánica del caracol, eitb.eus
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Language
ES
Area
Gravitation

Interview with the physicist Roberto Emparan talking about black holes characteristicsand how science tries to define their nature.

The Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV / EHU organizes a program of divulgation activities to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Roberto Emparan, a graduate of this faculty and currently an ICREA researcher at the Institute Institute  of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona, gives a lecture entitled "Stephen Hawking: from the black holes to Theory of Everything." Roberto Emparan's field of research is the field of gravity, black holes and  superstring theories.

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