The smash-hit Black Hole Symphony will be performed at the Museum of Science by a live chamber orchestra under the dome of the Charles Hayden Planetarium, in an entrancing and immersive production. Performances will be 7PM-8PM each night, April 24-27. The show is recommended for ages 18+ but may be suitable for ages 8+ if they are accustomed to musical concerts. Tickets are $20 and do not include museum admission.

Black Hole Symphony is a symphonic journey through spacetime, exploring the unfolding story of supermassive black holes as engines of gravity, light, and creation. This show is a unique collaboration between astrophysicists of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Black Hole Initiative with the musicians of the Multiverse Concert Series. Composer David Ibbett has sonified the light of black hole galaxies as musical notes and chords, in dramatic electro-symphonic score set to immersive 3-D visuals from the Charles Hayden Planetarium. Audiences will be plunged into deep space riding relativistic jets of plasma, guided through the dense dust torus, broad-line clouds, ultimately reaching the blazing accretion disk on the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.

The production is sponsored by MathWorks and the Massachusetts Music Teachers’ Association.