Soapbox Science Talk: Listening for Black Holes: Studying the Invisible with Gravitational Waves
Public talk
- Date: Jun 15, 2025
- Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: August Muller
- Location: Holzmarkt 25, 10243 Berlin
- Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Twelve brilliant women in science will give short, engaging talks about their work. There will be no slides or screens; just powerful ideas and real dialogue.
August Muller (she/her) is a Fulbright research fellow in theoretical astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). Her work explores some of the most mysterious objects in the universe: black holes.
Rather than looking through a telescope, she listens – to gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of our universe itself that carry the fingerprints of massive cosmic events. In her talk, August explains how these waves allow us to listen to black holes and to test the limits of our understanding of the universe.