Every 5 Minutes in our Universe, Black Holes... Dr Mike Landry, Caltech
Sat, May 10
|JUMP! Boise
Dr Michael Landry Head of the LIGO Observatory Presents One of the Most Amazing Discoveries of our Lifetimes! Gravitational Waves, Dark Sectors and Black Holes!
Time & Location
May 10, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
JUMP! Boise, 1000 W Myrtle St, Boise, ID 83702, USA
About the event
Engineers install, upgrade, configure and test the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, LIGO.
Mike's Talk Abstract:
Every five minutes, somewhere in the known universe, two closely-spaced black holes spiral toward one an
other and collide in an astrophysical event of unimaginable power. For a brief moment, collisions of these spacetime behemoths, each weighing somewhere between a few-to-hundreds of times the mass of our sun, outshine all the stars in the known universe. Astonishingly, none of this energy is visible to us as light, or any other electromagnetic wave. Instead, it is emitted as warpages in space and time, called gravitational waves.
In this talk, aimed squarely at the general public, we describe the nascent field of gravitational wave astronomy, currently less than a decade old. Beginning with Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and his prediction of gravitational waves as the force-carrier for gravity, we describe the large-scale detectors created to find…
Tickets
Adult - Reception & Talk
This ticket includes catering, the meet and greet with Dr Landry, as well as his fascinating Black Holes Talk.
$25.00
+$0.63 ticket service fee
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This ticket includes catering, the meet and greet with Dr Landry as well as his fascinating Black Holes Talk.
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+$0.38 ticket service fee
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