WSU Planetarium: Supermassive Black Holes
Sloan Hall, 305 NE Spokane Street, Pullman, WA 99163
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The WSU Planetarium is located in 231 Sloan Hall.
About the event
A docent will point out night sky highlights and upcoming astronomical events. This is followed by a fulldome video presentation.
The featured fulldome video tackles the most mindbending phenomenon known, and yet thought be to entirely real. When mass causes spacetime to bend so profoundly that even light cannot escape, we have the case of a black hole. Very massive stars might leave a black hole behind when they die, but galaxies have been seen to host supermassive black holes. Not just a few times the mass of the sun, but millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. How they form and how they are observed are the topics of this film.