Livestreams about the rocket launch of the geodesy mission GRACE Follow-On [more]

Part of this year's Summer Uni program is “Von Ladungen und Blitzen - eine Einführung in die Elektrostatik” an exciting physics lecture with experiments by AEI lecturer Dr. Markus Otto. [more]

Talk by Benjamin Knispel on the current status and history of gravitational-wave astronomy. [more]

Live online talk (in German) about LISA. [more]

Live online talk (in German) about special laser light for gravitational-wave detectors. [more]

Live online talk (in German) about deciphering the sound of gravitational waves. [more]

Live online talk (in German) about the origin of the Universe. [more]

Live online talk (in German) about observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer [more]

Live online talk (in German) about the gravitational waves event discovered to date. [more]

The delicate interplay of atoms can only be conveyed to a limited extent in digital formats, but our enthusiasm for the quantum world and the joy about the official launch of the Quantum Valley Lower Saxony (QVLS) initiative hopefully much more! [more]

Event at the Festival of Philosophy with participation of Bruce Allen, director at AEI. [more]

Gravitational waves are ripples of space-time predicted by Albert Einstein almost 100 years ago. In 2015, the first direct detection of the gravitational waves was achieved. The source was a merger of two black holes. In 2017, the first direct detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves was achieved. The source was a merger of two neutron stars. In this talk, I would like to present what these scientific achievements brought us and what the prospect is. [more]

The 11th of February marks the United Nations' International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz University Hannover celebrate the event by highlighting female researchers and their work at the institutes. [more]

Since the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, our knowledge of the universe has been enriched by a completely new window of observation – we can now not only observe the universe by means of electromagnetic telescopes and neutrino detectors, but also “eavesdrop” on it with interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. [more]

With his General Theory of Relativity, Einstein illuminated the grand expanse of the cosmos, but he was also instrumental in developing quantum mechanics for describing the microworld. In Einstein’s day, these advances were considered unrelated but recent insights suggest that they may be secretly connected–significantly advancing our understanding of quantum threads that may stitch the fabric of spacetime. Leonard Susskind, Ana Alonso-Serrano and Mark Van Raamsdonk join Brian Greene to examine this newfound link and explore its implications for uniting the laws of the large and those of the small. [more]

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