Physics Hybrid Colloquium

Date:
23
Thursday
June
2022
Colloquia
Time: 11:15-12:30
Title: Revealing the Universe through Gravitational-wave Observations
Location: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/94565742701?pwd=UlZvQUFsaUlEVHM4UGIyNEllc2xjUT09
Lecturer: David Reitze
Organizer: Faculty of Physics
Contact: tamar.fuchs@weizmann.ac.il
Details: Caltech, LIGO
Abstract: Recent detections of gravitational waves (‘ripples in spacetime’) have produ ... Read more Recent detections of gravitational waves (‘ripples in spacetime’) have produced startling revelations about the nature of the high energy Universe. Since the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 emitted by the collision and merger of two black holes located more than one billion light years away, we are beginning to answer fundamental and long standing questions about black holes, neutron stars, gravity, and even the origins of the heaviest elements found in nature.
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