Supermassive Black Holes: Monsters lurking in the hearts of galaxies

Cunard Insights Programme Lecture

KIPAC Discover Our Universe lecture series — Stanford University, Stanford, CA — June 30, 2020

Our Universe Revealed lecture series — University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN — February 11, 2020

Black holes are some of the most exotic and most extreme objects in the Universe. Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, they are real and much more common than you may think; every galaxy has one lurking at its centre! Find out exactly what a black hole is, how we can find them and how they can power some of the brightest objects we see in the night sky.

Further Reading

• Gravity's Fatal Attraction – 2nd Ed, M. Begelman and M. Rees, 2010, Cambridge University Press

• Black Holes and Time Warps – K. Thorne, 1995, Norton