Schedule (subject to adjustments)
Timed Activities:
- Children's Program: 7:30 to 7:50 pm Auditorium
- Adult Short Dome Tour: 7:30 to 7:50 pm Plaskett Dome
- Children's Dome Tour: 8:00 to 8:30 pm Plaskett Dome
- Guest Presentation # 1: 8:00 to 8:40 pm Auditorium
- Guest Presentation # 2: 9:00 to 9:40 pm Auditorium
- Adult Full Dome Tour: 9:00 to 9:40 pm Plaskett Dome
- Adult Dome Tour / Plaskett Photography: 10:00 to 10:50 pm Plaskett Dome (Telescope open, weather permitting)
Ongoing Activities: (7:30 to 10:40 pm) The Hill closes at 11pm.
- RASC Telescopes in the Parking Lot and on the Deck (weather permitting)
- The 16" Telescope beside the CU (weather permitting)
- Ask an Astronomer - (Lobby/Deck)
- RASC Welcome Table -(Lobby)
- Children's Craft Table- (Lobby 7:30 to 9:30 pm)
- Display Gallery - Demonstrations and Hosted Q&A
- Gift Shop
- Hot and Cold Drinks available for purchase - (Deck)
- Planetarium - Unhosted Films - Seating limited to 8 people at any one time
Tickets at Eventbrite available June 25th 2022 at 3pm
Presentation
Titans of the Early Universe: The Birth Of The First Black Holes
Dr Tyrone Woods, DAO-NRC
At the heart of every galaxy lies a giant—a supermassive black hole anywhere from millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Our understanding of these mysterious objects is growing quickly; this year, the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own galaxy was released by the Event Horizon Telescope, and two of the last five Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded for black hole science. Many basic questions remain unanswered though, including how these black holes formed in the first place, and how they became so staggeringly massive.
In this talk, I’ll highlight the recent and upcoming efforts in Canada to unravel the mysterious origins of these cosmic titans, using the James Webb Space Telescope and the many other great observatories to come over the next decade.
Biography Dr. Tyrone Woods is a Plaskett Fellow at NRC Herzberg in Victoria, BC. There, he studies the physics of some of the most energetic events and objects in the Universe, by combining theoretical models with observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. He is also a Science Co-lead for the CASTOR mission, a proposed flagship Canadian space telescope. Before returning to Canada, he completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Germany, and held research fellowships in Australia and the UK.
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