Andrea M. Ghez
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Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy". This ob
Ghez in April 2019
Roger Penrose
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Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of
Andrea M. Ghez
…black hole (M31*) is, it is one of the best demonstrated cases for a supermassive black hole. In 2020, Ghez shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel, for their discoveries relating to black holes. Ghez and Genzel were awarded one half of the prize for their discovery that a…
Penrose in 2011
Predicted view from outside the event horizon of a black hole lit by a thin accretion disc
Penrose in 1978
Penrose at a conference c. 2011