The supermassive giant at the heart of the Milky Way | Interview with Prof. Reinhard Genzel

The supermassive giant at the heart of the Milky Way | Interview with Prof. Reinhard Genzel

Video April 28, 2020
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Interview with Reinhard Genzel, director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and architect of the 30-year programme that led to the discovery of the Schwarzschild precession around the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way. Genzel describes the general relativity effect observed by his team and how it can be used to study the galactic gravity trap.

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