The 2,542nd Meeting of the Society

October 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Powell Auditorium at the Cosmos Club

Black Hole Spectroscopy

Testing gravity by listening to the ringing of black holes

Emanuele Berti

Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University

About the Lecture

The lecture will explain how the gravitational-wave ringing of a newly formed black hole can be separated into characteristic modes, producing a kind of black-hole spectrum. It will explore how measuring those modes can reveal the properties of black holes and test Einstein’s general theory of relativity in the strong-gravity regime.

About the Speaker

Forthcoming.