Home News Colloquia colloquien_SS_2016 Archiv colloquium series summer term 2016 Speaker: Dr. Peter K. Fritschel, MIT KAVli Institute for Astrophysics AND Space Research, Massachusetts, USA LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger (Dr. P. Fritschel) Date: Jul 7, 2016 Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Dr. Peter K. Fritschel, MIT KAVli Institute for Astrophysics AND Space Research, Massachusetts, USA Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall Host: MPQ On September 14, 2015 the two LIGO gravitational wave detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana registered a coincident signal conforming to the gravitational waveform expected from the merger of two massive, compact objects. [more]