Dive into the heart of a supermassive black hole with Reinhard Genzel : 1st Episode of ‘A Night with the Space Nobelists’

The first episode in ‘A Night with the Space Nobelists’ is now out! The event host Tommi Tenkanen interviews Prof. Reinhard Genzel.

Check the video below and find out how Prof. Genzel found the elusive supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way and learn about bizarre things in our university, singularities and event horizons. And what does Prof. Genzel think about wormholes and time traveling?

Reinhard Genzel  is a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Andrea Ghez) “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.