Dark Matter and Black Holes - SOLD OUT

Everything we can see - stars, planets, galaxies, and even ourselves - makes up only a small fraction of the cosmos. The rest appears to be dominated by mysterious forces we cannot directly observe.

In this mind-bending lecture, Stefano Profumo, Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explores two of the greatest mysteries in modern astrophysics: dark matter and black holes. Dark matter acts as the unseen scaffolding holding galaxies together, yet scientists still don’t know what it actually is. Black holes, meanwhile, are regions where gravity becomes so extreme that not even light can escape - and where the laws of physics begin to break down.

Drawing on research in particle physics and cosmology, Profumo unpacks what scientists know, what remains deeply puzzling, and why these two cosmic mysteries may be more connected than they first appear.