Using Gravitational Waves to Hear the Murmurs of Distant Black Holes
In 2016, an international team of scientists announced the historic first detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time created by the violent merger of two distant black holes. This detection, made by the LIGO scientific collaboration, provided the final proof of Einstein's theory of general relativity and opened the doors to entirely new way of observing the universe. In this talk, we'll explore the science of gravitational wave astronomy. Kyle Kramer of Northwestern University willl discuss how these waves are detected on Earth, the physics of the strange objects that produce these waves, and the future of this new and exciting field of science.
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