Cosmic Curiosities: Black Holes & Beyond

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Join us for a fun family-friendly adventure into black holes! Discover their cosmic secrets, unleash your creativity, & explore wild ideas like time travel.

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Join Robert Clemenson as he questions what would it feel like to fall into a black hole. Could we use black holes to travel through time? Will we ever unlock the mystery of the singularity? This talk introduces these monsters of the cosmos. He will discuss their formation, detection, and the 'stranger than fiction' phenomena of time-dilation and spaghettification.

Black holes are some of the most exotic, ferocious, and mysterious objects in the Universe. Born from the collapse of a dying star, these monsters of the cosmos might be the key to unlocking our understanding of gravity and the quantum world. In this talk we will trace the fascinating history behind the discovery of black holes, combining creative theory and ingenious observation. We will explore their formation, and look in detail at what it would feel like to fall through the horizon of a black hole.

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