Speaker
Maya Fishbach
(University of Toronto)
Description
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has observed ~100 gravitational-wave sources to date, including mergers between black holes, neutron stars, and mixed neutron star—black holes. These neutron stars and black holes connect many astrophysical puzzles, including the lives and deaths of stars, cosmic chemical enrichment, and the expansion history of the Universe. I will discuss some astrophysical and cosmological lessons from the latest gravitational-wave discoveries, and discuss what we can expect to learn from the upcoming flood of observations.
Primary author
Maya Fishbach
(University of Toronto)
