Click above to listen to part 3 of Hawkingravity, featuring Richard Camuccio, graduate research assistant at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, a LIGO collaborator, and Wahltyn Rattray, grad-student at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, describing the most recent LIGO discovery, the collision of two neutron stars.

Hawkingravity:
Part 1: Leonard Mlodinow / Working with Hawking
Part 2: Janna Levin / Hawking Radiation
Part 3: Camuccio & Rattray / LIGO Discoveries
Part 4: Raphael Bousso / Theory of Everything

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