Envisioning the next decade of Galactic Center science: a laboratory for the study of the physics and astrophysics of supermassive black holes
by Tuan Do, Andrea Ghez, Eric Becklin, Reinhard Genzel, Dimitrios Psaltis, Hagai Perets, Phil Armitage, Charles Gammie, Elliot Quataert, Matthew Hosek, Abhimat K. Gautam, Rory O. Bentley, Mark R. Morris, Jessica Lu, Kelly Kosmo O'Neil, Zhuo Chen, Aurelien Hees, Anna Ciurlo, R Michael Rich, Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Arezu Dehghanfar, Smadar Naoz, Rachael L Beaton, Andrea Bellini, Jenny Greene, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Devin S. Chu, Mattia Libralato, Gunther Witzel, Shogo Nishiyama, Fred Rasio, Nevin N. Weinberg, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Feryal Ozel, Joseph Hora, and Howard Smith
Published onMay 31, 2019
Envisioning the next decade of Galactic Center science: a laboratory for the study of the physics and astrophysics of supermassive black holes
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Abstract
We describe several research questions driving the next decade of Galactic center science: Is General Relativity (GR) the correct description for supermassive black holes? What is the nature of star formation in the GC? How do stars and compact objects dynamically interact with the SMBH? What physical processes drive gas accretion onto Sgr A*?
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