A Look at Big Black Holes in Next Florida Tech Astronomy Lecture March 26

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Sciences will present Daniel Batcheldor in the next astronomy and astrophysics public lecture March 26. His lecture, “Hypermassive Black Holes,” will be held on campus in the F.W. Olin Engineering Complex, Room EC118, at 8 p.m. Admission is free.

Batchelder asks, “Why are black holes soimportant?”

He explains, “We will explore the simple theories that drive the black hole phenomenon,some of the consequences of close encounters with black holes of various sizes,and look at observationalevidence for nearby and distantblack holes.This will include the latest efforts bythe Hubble Space Telescope to find black holes that are billions of times more massive than the Sun. These are the hypermassive black holes. Finally, we will see how black holes may actually be responsible for sculpting manyof the important astronomical features we see around us.”

The F.W. Olin Engineering Complex is located on University Boulevard. For more information, call (321) 674-7207 or visit www.fit.edu/aapls.