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Matteo Barsuglia
The Gravitational Wave Revolution
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- Overview
- The book at glance
- About the author
- Press
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Matteo Barsuglia
The Gravitational Wave Revolution
- Overview
- The book at glance
- About the author
- Press
Overview
A decade after the detection of the first gravitational wave, the story of one of the main protagonists of the scientific adventure that has forever changed astronomy.
In September 2015, the American instrument LIGO detected a gravitational wave for the first time–a perturbation in space-time predicted by Einstein a century earlier. The wave was produced by the merger of two black holes over a billion light-years away. In 2017, the European experiment Virgo joined LIGO, enabling the precise localization of sources, in particular the historic neutron star merger of August 17, 2017.
In addition to confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity, this signal marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy, where a completely different cosmic messenger is used to try to answer questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics–an ongoing quest that never ceases to amaze.
The book at glance
About the author
Matteo Barsuglia is a research director at the French CNRS. He led the team responsible for the commissioning of the Virgo detector at the European Gravitational Observatory and was a member of the steering committee for the Einstein Telescope project. He heads the Virgo team at the “Astroparticles and Cosmology” laboratory at the University of Paris and is director of the Cosmos, Sciences et Sociétés center, which develops interdisciplinary projects, science outreach, and initiatives to raise awareness about the ecological crisis.
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