CENTRA Seminar - Black-hole binaries in Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet gravity - 15 março 2018

Despite the ever stronger observational support for general relativity (GR) as our standard model of gravity, open questions concerning, e.g., the nature of dark matter or the reconciliation of GR with quantum physics indicate the existence of a more fundamental theory of quantum gravity. While the exact theory is unknown, most candidate theories of quantum gravity predict modifications to GR. Black holes, and the gravitational wave signal emitted during their collision, provide a novel way to search for signatures of these underlying theories.