If you took the mass of our sun and stuffed it into a space the size of Manchester, you would create an area so dense that it would form a black hole.
A black hole forms in space when a dying star collapses in on itself, where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out, and because no light can get out, people can’t see black holes. They are invisible and the biggest we have discovered so far is 40 million times the size of our sun.
A new immersive experience opening on Thursday as part of Manchester’s Science Festival will create for the visitor what in reality they would never be able to experience,a last moments as you stand by the event horizon of black hole.
Distortions in Space and Time an immersive art work by the audio visual pioneers Marshmellow Laser feast is one of three headline attractions at this year’s festival featuring 120 events across 65 Greater Manchester locations.
Before you enter the experience, a short film will explain some of the physics principles behind black holes before you enter the chamber where you will quickly find that as you approach the event horizon, photons of light behave different, you may see the back of your head.
Now,your shape is turned into brightly coloured specks of light which over the three to four minutes that you are in the experience,those specks slowly dissipate until at the end,there is nothing but blackness as the light photons lose their battle against gravity.
Of course this is all pure mathematics and physics, nobody really knows what happens, only its equations of paper, for some when you enter the black hole, it is the end of everything ,others believe it might be the beginning.
The experience runs until the 28th of October Details
