12–16 Sept 2016
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Session

Public talk: Seeing two black holes merge (with gravitational waves!)

14 Sept 2016, 19:00
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Uni Dufour U300

Description

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2016/33/Events/2207047?ln=en

Presentation materials

  1. Bruce Allen (Max Planck Society/Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)
    14/09/2016, 19:00

    On 14 September 2015, the advanced LIGO gravitational wave instruments detected the gravitational wave signal emitted as two black holes, about one billion light years away from Earth, made a final few orbits around each other then merged together. This was big news around the world, because scientists have tried to make such observations for more than half a century. Before they merged, the...

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