Luca Zampieri

INAF – OAPD

petek, 11. 5. 2012, ob 11h v F7 (*)

Despite the impressive advancements occurred in recent years, the existence of Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) represents still a theoretical challenge in modern Astrophysics. Likely the majority of them are the most extreme version of an X-ray binary, with a Black Hole in a mass range or in an accretion regime so far unexplored.

Here I will review our present understanding of ULXs, discuss some potential pathways to their formation and summarize possible future observational and theoretical prospects.

(*) POZOR: sprememba dneva/ure/predavalnice!