Supermassive Black Holes and the Galaxies that Make Them

Name: Supermassive Black Holes and the Galaxies that Make Them
Start: 2019-06-11T19:00:00
End: 2019-06-11T19:00:00
Location: UW Space Place

Jun 11, 2019 7:00 PM

UW Space Place 2300 S. Park St., Suite LL-100, Madison, Wisconsin

June 6, 2019

1:19 PM

press release: Lecture by Sebastian Heinz, UW-Madison Astronomy Dept.

Find out what we learned from the recent first-ever (by Event-Horizon Telescope) images of a massive black hole at the center of a nearby galaxy. Which comes first? The galaxy or the black hole? How do supermassive black holes function in the development of galaxies?