Planetarium – Black Holes

Tickets available at all Vallitix locations, Charge by phone 661-322-5200 and Vallitix.com

Adult $8 Kids $6

On Thursday evening, March 17th, from 7:30 to 8:30 PM, the William M Thomas Planetarium will give the popular “Black Holes” show that has continually played to sold-out audiences.

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)!