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Nobel Prize Winners How Artificial Stars Guide andrea Ghez Towards Her Next Discoveries

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Nobel Prize Winners How Artificial Stars Guide andrea Ghez Towards Her Next Discoveries

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Two groups independently tried to prove this hypothesis, one around Andrea Ghez from UCLA and one around Reinhard Genzel from the MPI for extraterrestrial physics. To find experimental evidence for this prediction, large telescopes are necessary. And if you don’t build such telescopes in space, sophisticated techniques to fight atmospheric distortions are required. Otherwise, these distortions blur the images and limit the observation of distant stellar motion. In the last 30 years, the two groups gathered experimental evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way. And with that, could, in the end, rule out alternative theories and hypotheses.

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