SkyWatch on Friday, 13-Feb-2026, 7:30 to 10 PM
Suman Kundu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Physics, will give a talk titled "A Brief History of the Black Holes"
Description of talk - In 1915, while serving on the front lines of World War I and suffering from a rare, agonizing autoimmune disease (which led to his death in 1916), Karl Schwarzschild discovered the first black hole solutions. His work deeply impressed Einstein, yet almost no one at the time—including Einstein himself—thought that black holes could actually exist in our Universe. Then, in May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope revealed an image of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) lurking at the center of our own galaxy. In this talk, I will describe some of the remarkable properties of these cosmic monsters and share a few highlights from their equally remarkable 100-year history.
Location: Rm 229, Peters Science Hall, KWU, 4th & Cloud and the KWU Observatory on the 5th Floor.
Times: Talk - 7:30 to 8:15 pm; Time after talk for Q&A. Light Refreshments after talk. Celestial observing in the KWU observatory from 8:30 to 10 pm, weather-permitting. If too cloudy, then we will offer observatory tour to interested attendees. ALL are welcome to our FREE program.
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