Facing Infinity

Over 250 years ago, an 18th century vicar looked up at the night's sky and suggested there was something very dark and extraordinarily heavy that was moving the stars.

In 2019, astronomers took the first actual photograph of a black hole.

Jonas Enander has travelled the world, visiting telescopes and observatories, interviewing world-leading space researchers and delving deep into the archives to investigate how our relationship with black holes has changed over time.

Journey with him through space and time to uncover how our desire to answer the question of the origin of the universe inadvertently led to the invention of WiFi, how looking outward gave us critical evidence of our impact on climate change that could be the key to the future of all humanity and how colonialism sparked the race for discovery, affecting those most vulnerable and creating a ripple effect being felt to this day.

Discover how black holes work, where they come from and what role they play in the universe.

How is it possible to know that we are on a 230 million year journey around the Milky Way with an enormous black hole at its centre? How have we determined that this black hole has a mass equivalent to four million suns? What happens when black holes collide? Are we living in a black hole? And how do we even know any of this? There will be a book signing after this event.