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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Einstein\, Gravitational Waves\, Black Holes and Other Matters
DESCRIPTION:Join us in person for this lecture\, or tune in via livestream at: https://myumi.ch/MkzmE\n\nMore than a hundred years ago\, Einstein predicted that there were ripples in the fabric of space-time traveling at the speed of light: gravitational waves. On September 14\, 2015\, the LIGO detectors in Hanford\, Washington\, and Livingston\, Louisiana in the US registered for the first time ever a loud gravitational wave signal traveling through Earth\, created more than a billion years ago by the merger of two black holes. A spectacular signal was detected by LIGO and the Virgo detector in Europe in 2017\, produced by the collision of two neutron stars\, giving birth to a black hole\, generating also electromagnetic waves (light!) detected by many telescopes and helping us understand the origin of gold. In only a few years from the first detection\, there are now hundreds of new signals from mergers of black holes and/or neutron stars - this is the era of gravitational wave astronomy. We will describe the history and details of the observations\, and the gravity-bright future of the field.\n\nEach fall\, the University of Michigan Physics Department hosts the Ta-You Wu Lecture\, one of the most prestigious lecture events in the Department. It is named in honor of Michigan Physics alumnus and honorary Doctor of Science\, Ta-You Wu.\n\nFor more information\, please visit https://myumi.ch/D8zD1
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136098
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CATEGORIES:Aem Featured,Astronomy,Engineering,Free,Graduate And Professional Students,Graduate Students,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Natural Sciences,Physics,Prospective Graduate Students,Smoke-free,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Fourth Floor Amphitheatre
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