CCATP #770 — Nobel Laureate Dr. Andrea Ghez on our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

<p>ave you always figured that astrophysics was a subject beyond your grasp? In this week's Chit Chat Across the Pond, Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Andrea Ghez from UCLA joins me to explain how she and her team proved there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and she does it in _human friendly_ terms! In 2020 she became only the fourth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. </p> <p>Steve and I were lucky enough to become friends with Andrea on our circumnavigation around Iceland and also on our trip to Antarctica. To be perfectly honest, we signed up for Antarctica _because_ we knew Andrea was going to be lecturing.</p> <p>Since this was such a momentous interview, we have audio _and_ video embedded of the interview with Dr. Ghez. Many thanks to Steve for putting the video together.</p> <p>If you'd like to learn more about Andrea and her team's work, and to see photos and video animations of their discoveries, follow the <a href ="https://galacticcenter.astro.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">link to the UCLA Galactic Center Group</a>.</p> <p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript: <a href="https://podfeet.com/transcripts/CCATP_2023_06_22.html">CCATP_2023_06_22</a></p>