MANSFIELD, PA— “LIGO, the Universe, and Everything: When Black Holes Collide” will be the topic o
f a presentation by Keith Thorne at Allen Hall, Room 104 on Friday, November 11, 10:30 a.m. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Thorne, of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Observatory in Louisiana, will explain how they made the first detections of gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein. Their decades-long quest for a collision of black holes has created a whole new type of astronomy, the first to sense gravity itself. The impact on getting answers to ultimate questions about the cosmos will be discussed.
This presentation is part of the Speakers for Tomorrow Series sponsored by the Institute of Science and the Environment at Mansfield University.
For more information on the talk, contact Lilace Guignard, director of the Institute of Science and the Environment, at lguignar@mansfield.edu