Interstellar

What are black holes? How can we see them? Join Dr. Jean Quashnock, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, for an introduction of black holes and exploration of how instruments like the Event Horizon Telescope image and reveal their powerful effects. Then, settle in for a screening of the visually stunning epic Interstellar, a mind-bending journey through space and time that explores love, survival, and the fate of humanity among the stars.

About Interstellar

In Earth’s future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth’s population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind’s new home.

About Dr. John “Jean” Quashnock

Dr. John “Jean” Quashnock is a cosmologist and professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has worked on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) “Map of the Universe” project, an effort to catalog and map hundreds of million galaxies. Prof. Quashnock’s research interests include early-universe cosmology, large-scale structure, high-energy astrophysics and gamma-ray bursts, absorption-line systems in quasar spectra, gravitational waves, and high-redshift supernovae.

With our partners at White Mountain Science, Inc. (WMSI)

The Science on Screen Series at The Colonial is sponsored by Douglas Arion, Mary Secor, and Mountains of Stars

Science on Screen is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation