"German astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel, 73, takes the stage. He then begins his lecture in the most unexpected way: What's the point of talking about black holes if all the Hollywood producers already know what they are? Going into them is easy, but once you do ooooh. The audience made up of a couple of hundred professors and students from 20 countries is taken aback."
"Genzel who was born in the town of Bad Homburg acts like a friendly guy who just happens to be passing by. But he's actually one of the scientists who discovered the central object of our galaxy: Sagittarius A*, a colossal black hole, with a mass equivalent to four million stars like the Sun. The director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics speaks with passion and a sense of humor about his discoveries, for which he shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics,"
"In early November, Genzel attended the Hong Kong Laureate Forum, which awards the Shaw Prize (often described as the Chinese Nobel Prize). He was delivering a vibrant lecture at the city's Science Park, as a guest of the same forum that recognized his discovery 12 years before the Swedish Academy did. After his talk, he answered some questions from EL PAIS."
Reinhard Genzel, a German astrophysicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, helped discover Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole with a mass equivalent to four million Suns. Genzel shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for related discoveries. He opened a lecture with humor about Hollywood portrayals of black holes, surprising an audience of professors and students from 20 countries. He attended the Hong Kong Laureate Forum and received the Shaw Prize earlier. He emphasized combining theoretical and experimental astronomy to study black holes remotely because direct travel is impossible.
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