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- Is the detection of gravitation waves humankind’s greatest achievement?
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Black Holes and Neutron Stars - A Merger in Space
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- 1 - Participant Intros.
- 2 - Is the detection of gravitation waves humankind’s greatest achievement?
- 3 - The first confirmed discovery of an Einstein black hole using gravitational waves.
- 4 - What happens when neutron stars collide?
- 5 - What is a quark?
- 6 - How do pairs of black holes or neutron stars collide?
- 7 - Stellar evolution.
- 8 - What is LIGO doing, how does it work?
- 9 - What are gravitation waves and what does their detection reveal to us?
- 10 - Simulation of how gravitational waves are formed from the collision of neutron stars.
- 11 - What is the ‘chirp’ and what does it tell us?
- 12 - How can pairs of neutron stars create tides, and what does it tells about the state of matter?
- 13 - How do you determine mass and spin from observations of black holes?
- 14 - What was observed in the SWIFT experiment?
- 15 - How do you make multiple coordinated observations of stellar events like the collision of neutron stars or black holes?
