Graduate Research Fellow National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro, New Mexico, United States
Abstract: In June 2023 the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves announced evidence for the existence of gravitational wave background, a hum of low-frequency ripples in the fabric of space-time that permeate the cosmos. This was an exciting but esoteric result. Understanding this result and its significance to the field of astronomy relies on knowledge of concepts in general relativity, stellar evolution, and radio astronomy making outreach for the general public difficult. In the wake of the announcement I sought to make the public not only aware that the discovery was made but more importantly how it was made. In this talk I describe how I connect the motions of distant black holes to ripples in space-time to pulses from the most exotic stars in our galaxy, all by harnessing the power of dance.
