When Black Holes Collide: Measuring Gravity Waves with LIGO

WHAT TO DO: Albert was right...again

Tuesday, Oct. 11, Space Place, 7 pm

Way back in 1916, the famously-mustached theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (aka Mr. E = mc²) predicted the existence of gravitational waves in space. Last February — a mere 100 years later — science proved him right. UW-Milwaukee physicist and professor Patrick Brady will discuss how he and a team of more than 1,000 scientists from around the world finally detected these ripples in the fabric of spacetime and how they’re caused by violent events like colliding black holes.