Long has it been theorized that the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole. Now, after decades of exhaustive research, there is finally substantial proof of its existence ...

Astronomer and UCLA Professor Andrea Ghez has been named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. She shares the honor with Berkeley colleague Reinhard Genzel and Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A UCLA astrophysicist was one of three scientists to be awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics Tuesday for her pioneering research on black holes. Andrea Ghez received the ...

On October 6th, Andrea Ghez, a graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work proving the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of ...

Lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is something big—something that as far as we know, can only be a supermassive black hole. For discovering the presence of this mysterious object, renowned ...

As you probably know, we get a lot of stars here at NPR West. Sometimes they're stars who study stars. Our Science Correspondent Joe Palca says UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez is "a real hotshot scientist ...

Andrea Ghez, a 2020 Nobel Prize winner in physics for her research in discovering one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe—the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy—will be a ...

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