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72: Nobel Black Holes

Author
Syzygy
Published
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Episode Link
https://syzygy.fm/podcast/episode72

October is Nobel Prize month, and this year the Physics Nobel was shared by three amazing physicists: one who took Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and wrapped some bonkers Escherian mathematics around it to show that these black hole things are real solutions of the equations; and two who then said, OK, let's go find one in the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. Here's to Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose, the newest Physics Nobel Laureates!

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