Black holes are coming to Copenhagen in August 2024
The Niels Bohr Institute is celebrating 50 years of Hawking radiation and a decade of amazing developments in black hole science. Worldwide experts will gather at the Black Diamond and at the Copenhagen Planetarium, to discuss what we don't know yet and what we would like to understand about black holes.
We have called it the #blackholeweek: https://strong-gr.com/black-hole-week/
Black holes are the destiny of dead stars. They fall onto themselves and puncture the universe. Fifty years ago, Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes evaporate, according to the same rules that Niels Bohr discovered, of quantum mechanics. But we don't know how black hole interiors behave, nor even how they evaporate, since our laws of physics break down when we try to do the math behind the ideas. But we know that the power of the intellect and sheer will can allow us to move forward in our understanding.
Vítor Cardoso, Johan Samsing and others are the coming week celebrating an object that challenges our notion of space and time, an object that the universe produces. In a scientific conference at the iconic Black Diamond venue, attended by reporters from the New Scientist and the American Physical Society as well as a science youtuber, we are welcoming some of the most important experts to Copenhagen, where they will talk about black holes and update the research community. In Kongens Nytorv, a central square in Copenhagen, Johan Samsing has put up a science/art display that covers all modern aspects of black hole science, thus reaching out to the public as well.