Black Holes – A Sip and Scholar Lecture Night

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📅 Date: March 4, 2026⏰ Time: 6:00 PM📍 Location: King and University (exact address given in confirmation email/ticket)🎙️ Lecture "Black Holes: The Universe's Wildest Plasma Lab" 👨‍🏫 Speaker: Prof. Bart Ripperda

Black Holes: The Universe’s Wildest Plasma Lab

Black holes are where the universe stops playing nice.

They’re not silent voids in space — they’re regions of extreme violence and beauty, where matter is ripped apart, magnetic fields twist and snap, and the known laws of physics are pushed to their absolute limits.

In this lecture, theoretical astrophysicist Prof. Bart Ripperda, will take us inside these cosmic extremes — treating black holes as natural plasma laboratories that allow scientists to test physics in ways no Earth-based experiment ever could.

We’ll explore:

• What really happens to matter as it falls toward a black hole
• Why plasma and magnetic fields are central to black hole behavior
• What these extreme environments reveal about the universe — and what we still don’t understand

If we’re going to talk about the most extreme objects in existence, we might as well do it with a drink in hand.

Themes: black holes · plasma physics · extreme physics · astrophysics

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