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SUMMARY:General Meeting – January 2026
DESCRIPTION: Join Zoom\n\nThis meeting’s speaker will present live from Kutchan\, Japan.\n  \nUntangling the Rate of\n  \nBlack Hole Mergers:\n  \nA Cosmic Tug of War\n  \n \nOn September 14th\, 2015\, humanity detected a ripple in spacetime 10\,000 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom coming from over one billion light-years away. This awesome feat of physics\, astronomy\, and engineering confirmed Einstein’s prediction of gravitational waves made over one hundred years earlier\, and opened the door to a whole new means of studying the Universe. Adam is one of many so-called “gravitational wave paleontologists” seeking to use gravitational waves to unravel the formation\, lives\, and deaths of stars and black holes that merge\, emitting the tiny waves that we now detect daily. Adam will be discussing how he used simulations of millions of massive stars to provide insight into the rates and demographics of mergers throughout the history of the Universe. \nLink to paper \n \nAdam Boesky is a rising PhD candidate at Harvard University studying a broad array of topics relating to astrophysical transients. As an undergraduate at Harvard\, he focused on mergers of compact objects (black holes and neutron stars)\, and developed machine learning pipelines for classifying events detected from large-scale astrophysical surveys. Recently\, Adam has been focusing on the detection and analysis of the exotic\, elusive transients that occur on the timescales of several years. \nViews: 16
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2026-01/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
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