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Houston Museum of Natural Science

Mapping the Heavens — Black Holes and Dark Matter by Priyamvada Natarajan

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 – Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017

06:30 PM
US/Central

Radical ideas--dark matter and black holes--which were just until recently contested within the scientific community, have transformed our cosmic view. Our Universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Dr. Priya Natarajan will discuss how she is now able to map these invisible entities by observing how light bends around them while en route to Earth from distant galaxies. This advancement has led to the discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

Theoretical astrophysicist Dr. Priya Natarajan is professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University and has been elected into the Explorers Club. Book signing of "Mapping the Heavens, The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos" with River Oaks Bookstore will follow the lecture.

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