On Tuesday 11 June 2024, at 11.30, a press conference will be held in the Holy See Press Office, Sala San Pio X, Via dell’Ospedale 1, to present the workshop “Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Space-Time Singularities” – An international workshop to celebrate the legacy of G. Lemaître in the new millennium, organized by the Vatican Observatory (16 to 21 June 2024).

The speakers will be:

- Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., planetologist, director of the Vatican Observatory;

- Fr. Gabriele Gionti, S.J., cosmologist, deputy director of the Vatican Observatory and LNF-INFN Frascati;

- Professor Massimo Bianchi, theoretical physicist, full professor of the University of Rome and INFN “Tor Vergata”;

- Don Matteo Galaverni, cosmologist, Vatican Observatory;

- Dr. Fabio Scardigli, theoretical physicist, Milan Polytechnic.

The press conference will be livestreamed in the original language on the Vatican News YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/VaticanNews.