The Black Hole Project

丹佛自然与科学博物馆正在制作一小时的高清电视节目《黑洞王国》，这是PBS的科幻系列片《新星》和《黑洞：无限的另一面》，是为天文馆影院制作的20分钟全动态节目。这两种媒体产品都将利用领先科学家与国家超级计算应用中心合作进行的大规模可视化工作。这些节目将通过使用科学模拟和基于数据的动画来说明恒星的生命周期和星系的诞生，来研究目前正在发生的高能天体物理学的广泛革命。这两个专题介绍将得到一个供公众使用的网站以及为教师和非正式教育工作者提供的宣传材料和资源的支持。媒体制作将由Thomas Lucas Productions，Inc.总裁Thomas Lucas指导，并由伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校艺术与设计学院教授唐娜·考克斯联合制作。保拉·阿普塞尔将担任新星计划的执行制片人，乔斯林·舍默将担任天文馆节目的执行制片人。科学顾问包括：加州理工学院理论天体物理学教授Roger Blandford；丹佛自然与科学博物馆空间科学馆长Laura Danly；加州大学圣地亚哥分校天体物理学教授Michael Norman；史密森天体物理天文台钱德拉X射线中心主任Harvey Tannanbaum；以及美国航天局戈达德空间飞行中心高能天体物理实验室天体物理学家David Thompson。

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.