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Astrophysics Seminars

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am (unless otherwise noted). They will be held in Bloomberg Lecture Hall and virtually through zoom. If an event was recorded, you can find it posted at ias.edu/videos under Natural Sciences. 

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Astrophysics Seminar Archives

Apr
04
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

A Fresh Look at Galaxy Scaling Relations and What They Reveal about Galaxy Formation
Mike Fall
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Despite the apparent complexity of galaxies, some of their most basic properties (mass M, binding energy E, angular momentum J, etc) obey simple power-law scaling relations. Such relations provide some of the clearest insights into galaxy formation...