#  Public Science Lecture Series - The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy 

 



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 **September 26, 2018** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Harvard University, Science Center, Lecture Hall C**  



 

 



 

 The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy presented by Lisa Barsotti

 On August 17, 2017, only a couple of years after the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole system, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) observed gravitational waves from a new source: a binary neutron star system. Tens of telescopes, on the Earth and in space, followed-up the event, shedding light on some of the big mysteries of our Universe, from the origin of extremely energetic explosions in distant galaxies - the Gamma Ray Bursts - to the formation of heavy metals on Earth. In my talk I will describe these discoveries, how they help us to improve our understanding of the Universe, and what we can expect from future observations.



 

 

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