Dr. Marco Cavaglia looking at LIGO data on his office computer. Photo by Tom Wagner/Missouri S&T.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves, physics will host a public lecture about the topic and its connection to black holes.
The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Hasselmann Alumni House. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Marco Cavaglia, head of S&T’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) group and professor of physics, will give a lecture titled “From Silence to Sound: 10 Years of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes.”