Venue: Theatre B117, Melbourne School of Design
Presenters: Professor Matthew Bailes
Pulsars are spinning dead stars that have long since consumed all their nuclear fuel and collapsed into super-dense remnants. Pulses of radiation from the spin can be used as extremely precise clocks with which to study extreme gravity. Astronomers have discovered over 2,000 of these bizarre objects including a remarkable binary pulsar that provided the first experimental evidence for the emission of gravitational waves leading to the 1993 Nobel Prize. Prof Bailes will explain his latest work with pulsars and will perform a live cross to a giant radio telescope to see a pulsar and explain how fast pulsars can discover gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries.
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6469-pulsars-nature-s-naturally-occurring-gravitational-laboratories
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