"Exact Gravitational Wave Signatures from Colliding Extreme Black Holes"
Abstract:
The low-energy dynamics of any system admitting a continuum of static configurations is approximated by slow motion in moduli (configuration) space. In the talk I will describe how this moduli space approximation can be utilized to study collisions of two maximally charged Reissner–Nordstrom black holes of arbitrary masses, and to compute analytically the...
Winning the Nobel Prize would cap most physicists’ careers. For 2017 winner Rainer Weiss, the prize might not even have been the biggest moment of his year.
The 85-year-old professor emeritus at MIT shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for conceiving and shepherding a set of observatories that allowed scientists to prove Einstein’s assertion about gravitational waves: accelerating objects send ripples cascading through the universe at light speed. The invisible waves are so faint that even the most powerful distort space-time by less than the width of...
The Black Hole Initiative hosts weekly colloquia every Tuesday from 1:30-2:30pm. The talks are held in the Black Hole Initiative Conference Room (220) at 20 Garden Street.
