Mooney does Cosmology

Dr Oisin MacConamhna is originally from Sligo, and now works as a research fellow with Imperial College London. Upon finishing school he studied applied maths at NUI Galway, then went to Cambridge, where he completed his PhD under Professor Stephen Hawking.

His current field of research is on the geometry of event horizons and their relationship to quantum field theories. Event horizons are the ‘point-of-no-return’ around a black hole - the distance from the centre at which the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. Because of this, nothing, even light itself was thought capable of escaping a black hole’s gravitational grip.

Dr MacConamhna will be on the Mooney radio show (RTE Radio 1) on Friday 13 April between 3pm and 5pm to talk about working with Stephen Hawking, Black Holes, Warped Space-Time and other peculiarities.

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