'Black Holes: From Cosmic Shadows to the Fabric of Reality' by Dr Sam van Leuven
| When: | Tuesday, 28 July 2026 |
| Where: | Wits Anglo American Digital Dome |
| Start time: | 14:00 |
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| Cost: | R20 per person; on Webtickets or at the door. |
Wits Digital Dome National Science Month.
Black holes are Universe's most dramatic objects: born in stellar collapse, fed by glowing disks of matter, revealed through gravitational waves, and now imaged at horizon scales, thus transforming them from strange mathematical possibilities in Einstein’s theory of gravity into real objects present even in our very own galaxy. They sit at the meeting point of our two best descriptions of nature: Einstein’s theory of gravity, which explains space, time and the large-scale universe, and quantum theory, which governs the microscopic world. In this talk, Sam van Leuven uses black holes as a doorway into holography, that spacetime itself may emerge from a deeper quantum description.
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