NEW YORK — A black hole rolls toward New York.
Has the Large Hadron Collider finally done its worst?
Not by a long shot. At World Science Festival, the annual New York mash-up of science, art and culture, the black hole is the central menace in "Icarus at the Edge of Time," a new musical work by Philip Glass based on a story by Brian Greene, Columbia University physicist and festival co-founder.
Yo-Yo Ma, among others, will be performing, but the star of the star-lovers will be Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University cosmologist.