Episode 62: Black Bells with Brent Knopf and Matt Sheehy

Posted Feb 1, 2016 by bn

Take a black hole
and throw something into it.
it doesn’t matter what. A phone. A Neighbour. A Taco. Whatever.

listen when the black bell rings.

As it falls in, the black hole will start to emit gravitational waves.
at a very specific tone.

like a bell.

You can tell what kind of black hole it is by the tone its ringing.

On this episode, we’re talking about Quasinormal Blackhole ‘ringdown’.

To aide us in our Efforts, we’ve brought in our old friends Brent Knopf (from Ramona falls, and El Vy… they were on Stephen Colbert!!) Matt Sheehy (from lost lander)!!! This show is amazing.

Physicists: Chiara Mingarelli, Leo Stein