Andrea Ghez Wins Nobel Prize in Physics for Pioneering Research on the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole – SciTechDaily

Andrea Ghez is the eighth UCLA faculty member to be named a Nobel laureate. Credit: Elena Zhukova/University of California
Andrea Ghez, UCLA’s Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics, today was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics.
Ghez shares half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel of UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. The Nobel committee praised them for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galax…

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