{"id":3304,"date":"2016-07-12T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=3304"},"modified":"2016-12-16T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:03:30","slug":"black-hole-blues-and-other-songs-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/black-hole-blues-and-other-songs-from-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Black holes are dark. That\u2019s their essence. That\u2019s the defining feature that earned them a name. They are dark against a dark sky. They are a shadow against a bright sky. A telescope has never found one unadorned. Bare black holes \u2013 those too solitary to tear down sufficient debris \u2013 in their obliterating darkness are practically impossible to observe, but not entirely impossible. In this Silver Science Lecture, Janna Levin will describe the aspiration to detect black holes (and other cataclysmic events) that culminated in the discovery of the century: The first human-procured recordings of a gravitational-wave sound from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n

Janna Levin<\/b> is the Tow Professor of physics and astronomy at\u00a0<\/span>Barnard College<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>Columbia University<\/span><\/a>, and has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is also director of sciences at\u00a0<\/span>Pioneer Works<\/span><\/a>, and was recently named a Guggenheim fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Registration is preferred but not required.<\/p>\n

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Black holes are dark. That\u2019s their essence. That\u2019s the defining feature that earned them a name. They are dark against a dark sky. They are a shadow against a bright sky. A telescope has never found one unadorned. Bare black holes \u2013 those too solitary to tear down sufficient debris \u2013 in their obliterating darkness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3319,"template":"","tags":[306,305,85],"class_list":["post-3304","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-astronomy","tag-black-holes","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3304\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}