NIC-XIV School 2016

Session

Oohara

13 Jun 2016, 09:00

Library Hall, Central Library (Niigata University (Ikarashi Campus))

48. Detection of Gravitational Waves and Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves

Prof. Ken-ichi Oohara (Niigata University)

13/06/2016, 09:00

Invited Lecture

The gravitational-wave signal GW150914 from merging black holes was observed on 14 September 2015 by the Advanced LIGO. It is not only the first detection of gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein just a century ago, but also the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black holes and relatively heavy, stellar-mass black holes larger than 25 solar masses. It has...