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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Andrea M. Ghez Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. In 2004, Discover magazine listed Ghez as one of the top 20 scientists in the United States who have shown a high degree of understanding in their respective fields. Read full biography of Andrea M. Ghez → 1 2 Ctrl → The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that... → 0 Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually... → 0 The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers. 0 Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see... → 0 Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center... → 0 Our galaxy's pretty ordinary, garden-variety. So if we believe our galaxy has a super massive black hole, that tells us that most, if not all... → 0 The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?'... → 0 The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity to test Einstein's... → 0 We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero... → 0 The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. 0 An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life. 0 Gravity wins over all other known forces. 0 As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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