Planetarium – Black Holes

Show is 7:30pm – 8:30pm.

Doors will open at 7:00 PM and will be closed during
the program with no late admittance.

No food, drink, or gum/candy is allowed in the
planetarium. Children must be 5 years or older to attend,
Kids are ages 5-12, Seniors are ages 60 years+

Parking fees are waived on that night if parked in lot
next to the stadium off of Mt Vernon.

The one-hour show will begin with a short tour of the evening sky using the planetarium’s Goto Chronos star projector followed by the 23-minute all-dome presentation from Denver Museum of Natural Science called “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity” using our Spitz SciDome projector. This show brings the current science of black holes to the dome screen. Supported by grants from NASA’s high-energy GLAST telescope project and the National Science Foundation, this cutting-edge fulldome projection features high-resolution, animated visualizations of cosmic phenomena, working with real data generated by computer simulations. [A visualization (as opposed to a Hollywood-type movie) uses only real data and computer simulations of real processes, not some artist’s imagination.] Black Holes shows viewers the inside of a black hole for the first time by integrating the equations of Einstein’s General Relativity with video game technology. Each second of the black hole visualization took 90 hours of computation on the world’s fastest supercomputer (at NCSA–Univ Il)!

Audiences will be dazzled with striking, immersive animations of the formation of the early universe, star birth and death, the collision of giant galaxies, and a simulated flight to a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy. NASA description (link will appear in a new window).