07 October 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to three astrophysicists
... ground- breaking article is still regarded as the most important contribution to the general theory of relativity since Einstein. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez each lead a group of astronomers that, since the early 1990s, has focused on a region...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
.... This pioneering work was led by groups headed by Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, and their efforts won the duo half...GNIRS instrument gave us the critical information we needed,” said Genzel, who is also the director of the Max Planck Institute...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
... Telescope's instruments (GRAVITY, SINFONI and NACO) to make new infrared observations. The international team, led by Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Garching, Germany), compared the position and velocity...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
... one of our dream projects but we did not dare to hope that it would become possible so soon,” concluded Reinhard Genzel of the MPE who led the study. “The result is a resounding confirmation of the massive black hole paradigm."
