Episode 36: Using artwork to explain the Universe with Dr. Hurt
Dr. Robert Hurt stops by the podcast to talk about his job making visuals to explain complicated astronomical concepts. We chat about multiverses, gravitational waves (see the video he worked on below), and Cameron Diaz’s love for NASA.
Image: JPL/Caltech, artist Dr. Hurt. You can read more about this image here.
LIGO scientist David Reitze takes us on a 1.3 billion year journey that begins with the violent merger of two black holes in the distant universe. The event produced gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space and time, which LIGO detected on September 14, 2015, as they passed Earth.