A&G Highlights Meeting - April 2024 Hybrid

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Gravitational waves and the origins of black holes

Dr Christopher Berry, Fowler A

 

Gravitational waves provide a new way to study the cosmos. The first observation of gravitational waves in 2015 was the first discovery of a binary black hole, and the first time that we have found a black hole 30 times the mass of our Sun. Gravitational-wave astronomy has progressed rapidly, and we now have revolutionary insights into the population of black holes. Studying these, we can infer how the progenitor stars lived and died. In this talk, we will review the discoveries made by the global gravitational-wave detector network, and see how these observations are advancing our understanding of stellar evolution

Christopher Berry's research focuses on the origins and properties of black holes and neutron stars; he also has a keen interest in public engagement and informal education. He studied at the University of Cambridge, obtaining his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he worked on analysing the first observations of gravitational waves. He moved to the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics at Northwestern University where he was the CIERA Board of Visitors Research Professor in 2018, and then moved back to the UK to join the University of Glasgow in 2020, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Gravitational Research. He has won the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics' Young Scientist Prize in General Relativity & Gravitation and the Royal Astronomical Society's Fowler Award for Early Achievement in Astronomy.

 

 

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The Geological Society,Burlington House,LONDON

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