It took over a thousand physicists to build a telescope capable of detecting vibrations in space and time coming from the merger of two black holes. Rainer Weiss, a co-founder and intellectual spirit of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, will speak about their triumph in this year’s John N. Bahcall lecture.
Attend in person or watch the live webcast on our website: http://s.si.edu/2pZmUgx
This program is part of the John N. Bahcall Lecture Series, which is organized and sponsored by the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Hubble Space Telescope Project/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
