Date/Time
Oct 20, 2016
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway
Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York New York
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, by Janna Levin:
In this Silver Science Lecture, Janna will describe the aspiration to detect black holes (and other cataclysmic events) that culminated in the discovery of the century: The first human-procured recordings of a gravitational-wave sound from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago.
Co-Sponsors: Barnard College Department of Physics and Astronomy.