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What does gravity sound like? Kosmisches Kino on 14. November

18 October 2024

The Kosmisches Kino series is entering its next round! After learning everything revolving around the light of distant galaxies in October, the next talk on 14 November will be about the sound of the cosmos!

Dr. Valeriya Korol from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) takes you on an acoustic journey through space and time. This English-language event will take place on 14 November 2024 at 19:00 in the ESO Supernova. Tickets cost 6.50 Euro each and can already be booked online.

Until now, astronomy has focused primarily on the study of light. Light that reaches telescopes and satellites from all directions and sometimes from immeasurable distances, in the form of electromagnetic waves: radio waves, infrared, visible light or even X-rays and gamma rays. However, some cosmic phenomena occur beyond light and have therefore remained an unsolved mystery for astronomy.

Thanks to new instruments and measuring methods, natural science has managed not only to see the universe, but also to hear it and thus, among other things, detect changes in space-time, so-called gravitational waves! This allows astronomers to get to the bottom of phenomena that previously only existed in theory. The European Space Agency (ESA) now has an ambitious plan to station LISA, a giant gravitational wave detector, in space to find new sources.

In the lecture “What does gravity sound like?”, Dr. Korol explains what we know so far about the cosmic keyboard and what possibilities the new instruments open up for astronomical research: from the chirping of merging binary stars, to the hum of fossil star systems, to the deep rumbling of massive black holes.

“Kosmisches Kino” is a series of events organised by the Exzellenzcluster ORIGINS in cooperation with ESO Supernova. The event on 14 November 2024 will take place in English. There will be no translation.

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