Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know

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Mar

1

2025

Event starts at this time 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s): Karl Gebhardt
Cost: $13, $8 with promo code TXSCIENCE
Hear directly from a local expert, and enjoy a documentary film all about one of the most mind-blowing phenomena in all of science.

Description

“Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know” tells the story of a paradox at the heart of black holes: When something falls inside, is it truly lost forever? A tight-knit group of physicists, secluded in the English countryside, search for the answer. 

Meanwhile, a global network of scientists builds a telescope, to achieve something more straightforward but equally profound: taking a photo of a black hole for the first time.

Preceding the film, hear from Dr. Karl Gebhardt, chair of the Department of Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin and a resident expert on super massive black holes.

This event is part of a new “Science Night Out” series of offerings with the Long Center and UT College of Natural Sciences. Find opportunities coming up in April and May.

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Karl Gebhardt

Karl Gebhardt, chair of the department of astronomy and Herman and Joan Suit Professor in Astrophysics, is a leading researcher in black holes. He is also one of the architects of HETDEX, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment. A decade before the first-ever photograph of a black hole was taken, Gebhardt and his team accurately measured the mass of that same black hole.

Location

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Use promo code TXSCIENCE to receive $5 off of the $13 ticket price.

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