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Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

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The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

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Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

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Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

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Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

Powerhouse Food: Producers

Across Western Sydney24 Aug 2024 — 25 Jul 2025

We Rise

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A tall rocket with a long trail of burning fuel lifts off from a launchpad at Cape Canaveral.

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

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Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse x We Are Warriors

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Black Hole Survival Guide | Janna Levin and Christian Wolf

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when
Ended 15 Aug 2024
price
Free
where
Parramatta Town Hall

Professor Janna Levin and Associate Professor Christian Wolf take us on a journey through the mysteries of black holes. Professor Levin will reveal the ways in which black holes have changed our most basic understanding of the galaxy, the universe and reality itself. Associate Professor Christian will discuss his contribution to the discovery of the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded.

This is an Auslan interpreted event.

Speakers

Professor Janna Levin is the Claire Tow Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Columbia University. She is also the Founding Director of the Sciences at Pioneer Works, a cultural centre in New York City. As a Guggenheim Fellow, Levin has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and the evolution of the universe. Her most recent book is Black Hole Survival Guide.

Associate Professor Christian Wolf of the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics was the leading author discovering the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, first detected at ANU Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran in NSW. Wolf holds a PhD from the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy, Germany and was previously an Advanced Fellow, Astronomer, at Oxford University, UK.

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