Reinhard Genzel
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Oct 1, 2026
PeterHOST
In 2019, scientists dropped the first portrait of the M87 black hole, a super massive beast 6 billion times the mass of the sun.
PeterHOST
Just three years later, scientists used the work of Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for mathematically proving a super massive black hole existed in our galaxy, to reveal something much more intimate.
PeterHOST
This photo of Sagittarius A*, the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way that's located just 26,000 light years from Earth.
PeterHOST
Imagine you spend 30 years tracking stars orbiting an invisible object at impossible speeds, pretty sure that something with 4 million times the mass of the sun was hiding at the center of our galaxy, and then finally seeing it.
PeterNARRATOR
In 2019, scientists released the first portrait of the black hole of M87, a supermassive beast with 6 billion solar masses.
PeterNARRATOR
Only three years later, scientists used the work of Andrea Goetz and Reinhard Genzel, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for mathematically demonstrating the existence of a supermassive black hole in our galaxy.
PeterNARRATOR
to reveal something much more real, the photo of Sagittarius Alpha Stella, the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, located only 26,000 light years from Earth.
PeterNARRATOR
Imagine spending 30 years tracking stars orbiting an invisible object at impossible speeds, certain that something with 4 million times the mass of the Sun is hidden in the center of the galaxy.
PeterNARRATOR
In 2019, scientists revealed the first portrait of the black hole M87, a supermassive beast 6 billion times the mass of the sun.
PeterNARRATOR
Only three years later, scientists used the work of Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for mathematically proving that a supermassive black hole existed in our galaxy, to reveal something much more intimate.
PeterNARRATOR
this photo of Sagittarius O'Rear, the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, which is located only 26,000 light years from Earth.
PeterNARRATOR
Imagine that you spend 30 years tracking stars orbiting an invisible object at impossible speeds, almost certain that something with 4 million times the mass of the Sun was hidden in the center of our galaxy and then finally see it.