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Other Southampton events

Science with a Bang

Past event - 2016
23 May Doors open 7 pm
event 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm
Ebb and Flow, 104 Above Bar Street,
Southampton SO14 7DT
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A night of wonder over some of the deepest questions of our Universe.

Looking for Dark Matter at the Large Hadron Collider

Astrophysical evidence points to the fact that the universe contains around 5 times more "Dark Matter" than the normal matter we see around us on Earth. The nature of this Dark Matter is currently not understood, but there are high hopes of producing and studying it directly at the Large Hadron Collider over the next few years. We will explore the reasons why we know Dark Matter exists, why we hope we can produce it at the Large Hadron Collider, and why its discovery could revolutionise our understanding of the universe at the most fundamental level.

Messages from beyond the grave

"A star shines brightly as it burns nuclear fuel to form heavy elements. At some point the fuel runs out, and the star explodes in spectacular supernova. When the dust settles after the fireworks, a neutron star is born. These zombie stars come in variety of guises - from steady radio pulsars to flaring magnetars. In this talk Nils will explain how we decode messages from the stellar graveyard and turn the zombie stars into cosmic laboratories. It is a fascinating story that involves many extremes of physics.

Explosions in space

In space there are some very extreme environments, involving physics very different to physics here on Earth. In this talk, Alice shall look at how we can learn more about the behaviour of these systems from both observations and theory, with the goal of answering the question 'what is the biggest explosion in the universe?'
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