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The Black Hole Project

January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2007 | Media and Technology
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is producing "Realm of the Black Hole," a one-hour high definition television program for the PBS science series NOVA and "Black Hole: The Other Side of Infinity," a twenty-minute full motion program for planetarium theaters. Both of these media products will draw upon a large-scale visualization effort conducted by leading scientists in collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The shows will examine the broad revolution now taking place in high-energy astrophysics by using scientific simulations and data-based animations to illustrate the life cycle of stars and the birth of galaxies. The two presentations will be supported by a website designed for use by the general public and by outreach materials and resources for teachers and informal educators. The media production will be under the direction of Thomas Lucas, President of Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc., and co-produced by Donna Cox, Professor, School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Paula Apsell will be the Executive Producer for the NOVA program and Joslyn Schoemer will be Executive Producer for the planetarium show. The Science Advisors include Roger Blandford, Professor, Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology; Laura Danly, Space Science Curator, Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Michael Norman, Professor, Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego; Harvey Tannanbaum, Director, Chandra X-Ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; and David Thompson, Astrophysicist, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 0337286
Funding Amount: 1149134

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Thomas Lucas
    Principal Investigator
    Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc.
  • Joslyn Schoemer
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Denver Museum of Nature and Science
  • Andrew J. Hamilton
    Co-Principal Investigator
  • Donna Cox
    Co-Principal Investigator
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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    Evaluator
    Multimedia Research
  • Discipline: Space science
    Audience: General Public | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Broadcast Media | Planetarium and Science on a Sphere

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