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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 4: Klassische Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie 1

GR 4.1: Invited Talk

Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 08:30–09:10, SFG 0140

Observations of binary black hole coalescence events by LIGO — •Badri Krishnan — Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover

The advanced LIGO detectors have observed two binary black hole coalescence events with high significance: GW150914 on September 14, 2016 and GW 151226 on December 16, 2016. These detections enable us, for the first time, to probe the properties of black holes in full non-linear general relativity. In this talk I will summarize these events and other results from the first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. In particular, I will discuss the significance of the events, some properties of the binary black holes observed, implications for fundamental Physics and future prospects.