Black holes, gravitational waves and pulsars: gravity studied with radio astronomical tools

by Michael Kramer (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Radio astronomy offers a variety of ways to study the fundamental forces in the Universe. Especially gravity can be uniquely probed by a variety of experiments. Here, I will described the latest set of experiments, probing the strong-field aspects of theories of gravity as well as the properties of black holes and gravitational waves. These experiments range from binary pulsar tests, attempts to image a black hole event horizon and the direct and indirect detection of gravitational waves.

Kramer.pdf