Reinhard Genzel

Reinhard Genzel led one of two teams that, over decades, tracked the orbits of stars whipping around the centre of the Milky Way. Their motions revealed an invisible object of four million solar masses packed into a tiny region — a supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Genzel shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose.

• Showed that a supermassive black hole sits at the centre of the Milky Way
• Tracked stars orbiting the Galactic Center for decades
• Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)

• The Milky Way's Central Black Holec. 2020 CE

• Nobel Prize in Physics2020

• Part ofContemporary Astronomy
• Worked atVery Large Telescope (VLT)
• ReceivedNobel Prize in Physics
• DiscoveredThe Milky Way's Central Black Hole
• StudiesBlack Hole
• StudiesSupermassive Black Hole