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Back to Episodes„Holy shit!“ wrote Nobel Prize laureate in Physics Andrea Ghez after her discovery of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy’s center
Episode 586
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She discovered it. We can see it. We can learn more about it. The supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy.
For her discovery, Andrea Ghez was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Why does she love the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii so much? What is it like inside a black hole? How did the movie Interstellar help us understand physics? And why did she end up becoming an astronomer instead of ballerina, as she had dreamt of as a child?
Andrea Ghez is one of the five women in history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.