The WCA-KPL Astronomy Talk series takes place on the last Wednesday of each month, and is jointly organized by the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics and Kitchener Public Library.
In the past few years, we have seen for the first time an image of the “event horizon” around a supermassive black hole – the mysterious and powerful object lying at the heart of a nearby galaxy. In this month’s KPL astronomy talk, Dr. Avery Broderick will talk about what we can learn about fundamental physics from these images, and how we go from a fuzzy image to sharp conclusions about the nature of gravity.
Dr. Avery Broderick is a faculty member in the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics and with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, his research involves studying the extreme conditions present near black holes, connecting this to our understanding of gravity.