Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the Cosmos

When

08/03/2017    
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Where

Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Falmer, Brighton, Not in USA, BN1 9PX

Event Type

Clusters of Galaxies: The Shy Giants of the Cosmos

Wednesday 8 March 18:30 until 20:00
Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex BN1 9PX
Speaker: Kathy Romer, Professor of Astrophysics

Clusters of Galaxies, when viewed with telescopes on Earth and in space, are amongst the most beautiful objects in the night sky. Theirs is not a benign beauty: they play host to the most violent and energetic explosions in the present-day Universe. This lecture will review the historical contributions of that studies of clusters have made to the theory of Big Bang Cosmology, and also describe how current research into clusters at Sussex is uncovering the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy and black holes.

This is a free, open lecture – everyone is welcome, but numbers are limited.

Refreshments provided.