This artist's concept shows the core of an active galaxy, where a feeding supermassive black hole drives oppositely directed particle jets. Credit: ESA/NASA/AVO/Paolo Padovani
Fermi studies gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. Findings discussed will include measurements relevant to the search for new theories of gravity.
The panelists are:
- Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
- Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
- Peter Michelson, Fermi Large Area Telescope principal investigator, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
- Robert Kirshner, professor of astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Mario Livio, astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.