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Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe

Apr. 16 - 14:30 - 2018

Time: Monday, April 16th, 2018, at 14:30

Location: FCUL, building C8, room 8.2.11

Speaker:

Christopher Moore (CENTRA)

Abstract:

In the last few of years the LIGO and Virgo observatories have begun to detect gravitational waves from the coalescence of pairs of black holes and neutron stars. In this talk I will briefly describe the principles behind Laser Interferometry (the technique used by both LIGO and Virgo to detect gravitational waves). I will then describe some of the groundbreaking first discoveries, discuss their astrophysical significance, and present some unanswered questions and prospects for the future.

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