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The long journey to the center of our galaxy
Question: Prof. Genzel, looking at your scientific career, it seems like a major project spanning decades. How did your personal journey into astrophysics begin? Reinhard Genzel 2018, Photo: ESO/M. Zamani Reinhard Genzel: It all started in Bonn, in ...
Observing gravitational waves in space with LISA
Earth-based instruments have already observed many dozens of gravitational-wave signals from merging compact objects such as binary systems of black holes and neutron stars. Their future upgrades and third-generation successors will detect many thousands ...
How the Event Horizon Telescope observes black holes
Nobel laureates Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany) and Andrea Ghez (University of California in Los Angeles, USA) had already demonstrated through stellar motions that a black hole resides at the center ...
Third-generation gravitational-wave detectors
The era of gravitational wave astronomy has begun – with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo having observed 90 signals as of June 2022. In the coming years, these kilometer-sized and high-precision observatories, together with the Japanese KAGRA and the ...
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Understanding Einstein
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