Text reading Black Hole Bites

THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF BLACK HOLES

In the past few years, we’ve seen the first image of a black hole, one six billion times the mass of the Sun, and gravity waves have been detected from pairs of merging black holes, their space-time ripples reaching us after traveling for a billion years.

Black Hole Bites

By Chris Impey

Artistic representation of a black hole in space

March 11-13, 2022
Wonder House | Fogo de Chao

Black holes range from a few times the mass of the Sun to behemoths a billion times more massive. Join Professor Chris Impey for a set of short tours of the jaw-dropping properties of these enigmatic objects.

The bite sized lectures will cover “Bending Space and Time,” “Black Holes from Stellar Corpses,” “Black Holes as Gravity Engines,” “Black Holes and Space-Time Ripples,” and “Death by Black Hole.” The presenter’s most recent book is “Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes.”