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Talks and tours
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| Location | |
| Date and times | Wednesday 13 May 2026 | 7.15pm |
| Prices | Flamsteed Members: FREE | Guests of Flamsteed Members: £15 | Royal Museums Greenwich Members: £12 |
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Black holes are among the strangest things in the Universe, but in some ways they are actually very simple. How did we get from theory to detection, and what place do black holes have in the story of the Universe?
This talk will introduce the concept of black holes and how they work. It'll also provide advice for anyone falling into one, and help you understand how the former part makes the latter part completely useless…
Time travel and gravitational waves may also be involved.
Meet the speaker
Dr Edward Bloomer is one of the Senior Astronomy Managers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, responsible for running the planetarium, among other things.
He is the author of Illuminates: Black Holes, and has a background in gravitational wave data analysis from the Institute of Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow.
- The doors will open at 6.30pm, ready for the event to start at 7.15pm.
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Supermassive black hole (Image courtesy of NASA Goddard)