Speaker
Michal Bejger
(Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw)
Description
Recent detections of gravitational waves provide a new, exciting tool to observe the Universe. I will introduce this new method of directly studying the spacetime distortions produced by massive objects, and focus on recent findings of the LIGO-Virgo detector network, reporting on the binary systems of black holes and neutron stars, the latter also observed in electromagnetic waves.
