Events

Event Information:

• Tue

  16

  Feb

  2016

  Oxford Science Cafe

  6:00 pmLuca Bakery and Cafe, 1120-1122 North Lamar Blvd Oxford, Mississippi

  Katherine Dooley and Marco Cavaglià
  Department of Physics and Astronomy
  University of Mississippi

  Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger.
  
  On September 14, 2015 at 03:50:45 a.m. CST the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a
  transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal matches the prediction of
  general relativity for the coalescence of two black holes weighting about
  30 Suns into a single black hole at a distance of over one billion light
  years from Earth. This is the first direct detection of gravitational
  waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger.
  See this page for details.