Black Holes and Neutron Stars - A Merger in Space
Offered By: World Science Festival via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
- Participant Intros.
- Is the detection of gravitation waves humankind’s greatest achievement?
- The first confirmed discovery of an Einstein black hole using gravitational waves.
- What happens when neutron stars collide?
- What is a quark?
- How do pairs of black holes or neutron stars collide?
- Stellar evolution.
- What is LIGO doing, how does it work?
- What are gravitation waves and what does their detection reveal to us?
- Simulation of how gravitational waves are formed from the collision of neutron stars.
- What is the ‘chirp’ and what does it tell us?
- How can pairs of neutron stars create tides, and what does it tells about the state of matter?
- How do you determine mass and spin from observations of black holes?
- What was observed in the SWIFT experiment?
- How do you make multiple coordinated observations of stellar events like the collision of neutron stars or black holes?
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