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From light to darkness: exoplanets, black holes, dark matter
An evening with Nobel Laureate 2019 Michel Mayor and scientists from CERN and ESO to celebrate Dark Matter Day.
If we look around us, at all the things we can touch and see, it is all visible matter. But this is only a small fraction of the matter in the Universe, because the vast majority of it is dark. To celebrate Dark Matter Day, we will explore the latest discoveries in the dark cosmos, from exoplanets to black holes and dark matter.
Nobel Prize winner and Swiss astronomer Michel Mayor will give an introduction to the first revolution in astronomy, from the observation of the sky with the human eye with Galileo's telescope to the discovery of the first exoplanet, for which Mayor and Didier Queloz were awarded the Nobel Prize.
Turning our attention to the dark universe, physicist Caterina Doglioni will focus on exploring dark matter at the LHC. We will also connect live and talk to ESO scientists based at the Chilean ALMA and the Paranal Observatory.
The conference, hosted by Paola Catapano (Head of content production, CERN), will take the audience on a journey into our dark cosmos, shedding light on the known, the unknown and all that is yet to be discovered.
Public event | Free entrance, mandatory registration | In English and French with simultaneous interpretation | Live webcast | Recorded
De la lumière à l'obscurité : exoplanètes, trous noirs et matière noire
Une soirée avec le lauréat du prix Nobel Michel Mayor et des scientifiques du CERN et de l'ESO le 3 novembre 2023, pour célébrer la Journée internationale de la matière noire.
Si nous regardons autour de nous, tout ce que nous pouvons voir et toucher est de la matière visible. Mais cela ne représente qu'une infime partie de la matière de l'Univers, car la grande majorité est de la matière noire. Pour célébrer la Journée internationale de la matière noire, nous explorerons les dernières découvertes sur l'univers sombre, des…
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- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- GLOBE - Public Events
- Speaker
- Various
- Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
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