29 February 2016
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN
Europe/Rome timezone

The direct detection of Gravitational waves

29 Feb 2016, 15:30
45m
Aula Bruno Touschek (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN)

Aula Bruno Touschek

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN

Via Enrico Fermi, 40 00044 Frascati

Speaker

Fulvio Ricci (ROMA1)

Description

The observation of gravitational waves emitted by the coalescence of two binary black holes, opened a new era in fundamental physics and astronomy. We will discuss in more details the discovery and some of the main consequences derived by analysing the signal.

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