We interview Dr. Charles Joseph Woodford, a knowledge translation specialist at Arthur B. McDonald Institute at Queen’s University.
Recently moved to Kingston to work at Queen’s University with the McDonald Institute.
From Newfoundland; Bachelor in Physics and Applied Mathematics. With also a minor in Russian studies from Memorial University of Newfoundland
PhD. in Theoretical and Numerical Astrophysics from University of Toronto.
Binary Black holes:
Black holes are essentially dead stars. There can be three kinds of BH; stellar black holes, intermediate-mass black holes, and supermassive black holes. You go up the mass axis via eating other stars or merging with other black holes.
Laser Interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) first saw a black hole collision/merger in September 2015. LIGO also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 2017.
Special thanks to Colin Vendromin for the music, also thanks to Zac Kenny for the logo!