Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And then, and then this, I was, I was just making sure I had my, my dates and everything.

So this would have been in September of 2015, right?

Who knows?

Maybe that's what the detector was saying.

Cut down the noise!

There's all kinds of little variations.

I mean, the lasers are under vacuum, but there's all kinds of things happening.

So in September of 2015, there's all kinds of noise.

There's all kinds of variation.

But then all of a sudden, one of the detectors goes off.

boom, just like that.

And then at the speed of light between one detector, which was in Louisiana and the other one was in Oregon, the same pattern, boom goes off.

And it was absolutely unquestionable.

It was the same pattern, the same frequency at the speed of light, gravitational waves travel, the speed of light from one detector and the, and people were like Nobel prize.

Yeah.

Oh my God.

But I mean, let me just, let me just say, cause I want to say what that event was.

There were two black holes, 1.4 billion light years away.

This event happened 1.4 billion years ago.

The black holes were both on the order.

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