Last Tuesday, the Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. Penrose was awarded half of the prize for his foundational theoretical work proving the existence of black holes. The other half of the prize was shared between Ghez and Genzel for their experimental measurements that found the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is the first to be awarded for research involving black holes. As we’ve seen in the past few weeks, black holes have massive implications throughout theoretical physics.…
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Check out this audio journey into the center of a supermassive black hole posted to Science You Can Bring Home To Mom’s new YouTube Channel! Transcript and sources below. Transcript: [Intro Music] A Journey to the Center of a Black Hole by Sav Miller I don’t know about you, but personally, I want to be thrown into a supermassive black hole when I die. I haven’t gotten around to putting it in my will—I still have to work out all the legal details—but consider this a formal declaration of how I would like to be laid to rest. In fact,…
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