Reinhard Genzel - CAS Showcase - Galaxies and Black Holes

Nobel Prize laureate Reinhard Genzel is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and honorary professor at LMU. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics together with American astronomer Andrea Ghez. In his talk, he discusses major advances in the study of supermassive black holes at galactic centers, enabled by increasingly detailed, high-resolution observations. These findings not only support the paradigm of massive black holes in galaxies but also allow tests of general relativity in the extreme environment of our own galactic center. This event is part of the CAS Research Focus “New Cosmology“ and of the CAS Showcase series, in which LMU scientists discuss the state of the art in their discipline. 0:00 Welcome: Prof. Dr. Christof Rapp (CAS LMU) 1:52 Introducion: Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkert (LMU) 6:19 Prof. Dr. Reinhard Genzel (LMU/MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics): Galaxies and Black Holes 53:45 Questions from the audience #CasShowcase #astrophysics #cosmology #universe #blackholes #galaxies