Explorio Festival

18.11.2024

Explorio is the newest astronomy festival in the country! It takes place in Sibiu and its main purpose is to bring astronomy and the research in the Astrophysics domain closer to people of all ages. This year’s festival ended with a space-themed conference at which our colleagues, dr. Răzvan Balașov, Florentina Pîslan and Maria Ișfan, were invited to talk about their research. They discussed Black Holes, the LISA Space Mission and Quantum Computers. And that’s not all! On Friday night, Răzvan and Maria also participated in a jam session and mesmerized all listeners with their skills.

"Cu Mic cu Mare... prin Univers" aka All of us around the Universe

15.11.2024

The “Cu Mic cu Mare… prin Univers” is a job fair organized every year by the Student Physics Association and the Faculty of Physics. This year, it took place between November 15-16, with Alice Păun coordinating student visits at the institute.

Talking about Black Hols @ Acton Academy Bucharest

07.11.2024

On Wednesday, November 6th 2024, Răzvan was invited by Acton Academy Bucharest to tell the students (also known as “eagles”) about black holes and space missions. The scholars of different ages, between 6 and 14 years old, were fascinated by our colleague because they have not only learnt about the newest discoveries about these cosmic giants, but they have also found out about the research activity of the ASPACE-Q group. You can read more about the event here.

Let's talk about space

25.10.2024

On October 25th, Dr. Ana Caramete was invited to give a talk about black holes, gravity, the space-time continuum, gravitational waves… or in other words, to give a taste of all the LISA Space Mission related goodies. To whom you may ask? To all the curious students from Cuza Voda High School who were incredibly eager to learn all about the most trending Astrophysics wonders.

Ana exemplified how gravitational waves are formed using a simulator consisting of a stretchy fabric (which represented the space-time continuum) on which she accelerated two heavy balls (representing two massive objects) and recorded the formed waveforms on a computer. And that’s not all! Once a gravitational wave would have been detected, the computer would emit an allert just like the low-latency pipeline alert system will do for the data collected by the LISA Space Mission!

After the demonstration, students generated their own gravitational waves which you can also see here!

FIND YOUR WAVEFORM!

The place where light disappears

23.10.2024

The anniversary number for 140 years of exsitence of the oldest Romanian scientific journalism magazine, Ș tiin ță ș i Tehnic ă, features an article written by our colleague, dr. Răzvan Balașov! We invite you to check out the article he wrote on black hole origins (as well as the upcoming one from this series)!

ASPACE-Q

The Astrophysics, Space Exploration and Quantum Computing Group