Dr. Gerald Brown

SUNY Stonybrook

"Escorting Hans Bethe Down the Path to Nothingness (Black Holes)"

When SN1987A went into a black hole we changed our research into the study of black holes. I plan to discuss that LIGO should detect 4 times more black-hole neutron-star binaries than double neutron stars and why rotating black holes are the central engines of Gamma Ray Bursters.

Background reading
• LMC X-3 May Be a Relic of a GRB Similar to Cosmological GRBs (2008)
• A Scenario for a Large Number of Low-Mass Black Holes in the Galaxy (1994)
• Supernova theory (1982)
• Strangeness condensation and cooling of neutron stars (1988)

Received December 6, 2007