But it bothers scientists on a fundamental level. Paul Rand: The idea that there’s something at the center of our galaxy that you not only can’t see, but that we don’t understand, is terrifying. That you don’t get the pulling, or dragging in, of objects. For the most part, most things that are nearby it will happily orbit the black hole the same way that the planets orbit the Sun. That is an unfortunate, and incorrect, conceptualization. Paul Rand: If you’ve seen or read any sci-fi, your first reaction is probably to fear that we’re being sucked into this black hole.Īndrea Ghez: So black holes have this very bad reputation of being cosmic vacuum cleaners. Paul Rand: And not just any black hole, but a supermassive one.Īndrea Ghez: Today, we think that most, if not all, galaxies harbors black holes at their centers, and that this black hole plays a really essential part in both the formation of the galaxy, our own is the Milky Way, and the evolution of galaxies, which are really the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Tape: This year’s prize is about the darkest secrets of the universe. And, last year, she won the Nobel Prize in physics for proving that, at the center of the Milky Way, is a black hole. She’s a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, and a graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Paul Rand: It’s been there your whole life, and maybe as long as the life of our galaxy itself.Īndrea Ghez: Well, it’s a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun, so you might call it monstrous in its mass. Tape: A rip in the very fabric of space and time. Paul Rand: There’s a monster lurking at the center of our galaxy. Andrea Ghez, UChicago Laboratory Schools alum, wins Nobel Prize in Physics-UChicago News.Watch Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez explain how to prove a black hole exists-U Chicago News.Astronomer Andrea Ghez on the responsibility that comes with a Nobel Prize-UChicago News.Seeing the invisible: How Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez found the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's center.The Scariest Things in the Universe Are Black Holes – Here’s Why-SciTechDaily.Life beyond the Nobel: why physicists love to leave the herd-Physics World.Was it really a black hole that the EHT imaged in 2019?-The Hindu.How a powerful telescope found a tiny black hole-Big Think.(Episode published November 18, 2021) Related: Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. In this episode, Ghez explains how she proved this supermassive black hole was hiding in the Milky Way and answers all our pressing questions like, including: Are we being sucked into this monster? And could researching it prove Einstein’s theory of relativity is actually wrong? But how do you go about finding something that emits no light? How do you see the unseeable? It was uncovered by UCLA astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, and in 2020 she won a Nobel Prize for this discovery. If you know anything about black holes, it may come as a surprise to learn that there’s actually one lurking at the center of our galaxy.
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