This week we’re celebrating this year’s astronomical awardees for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Today we have Reinhard Genzel and his pioneering work on constraining the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy
This week we’re celebrating this year’s astronomical awardees for the Nobel Prize in Physics. First up, Prof. Andrea Ghez and the mysteries of the Galactic Center!
The GRAVITY team first detects the Schwarzschild precession of the orbit of the star S2 in the center of the Milky Way.
The unique properties of echoed light that may illuminate what caused Sgr A* to flare up 120 years ago.
Recently, the world saw the first-ever images of a black hole’s shadow. Future images could be sharper with space-based telescopes!
An archival X-ray search reveals that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies may be surrounded by stellar-mass black hole companions.