Black holes are a phenomenon known everyone today and they are almost a part of everyday astronomy and science fiction stories. However, they are still one of the great puzzles in the cosmos for the human race. This year's Nobel prize for physics has been given to Dr Roger, Dr Andrea Ghez and Dr Reinhard Genzel for their great contribution to the world of science. Roger Penrose demonstrated how general relativity can lead to the formation of black holes. German astronomer Reinhard Genzel and his US colleague Andrea Ghez, whose observations have proven the existence of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Let's explore more on the exciting discovery that " black hole formation is a robust prediction" and understand the importance and nature of the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy. Speaker Profile: Dr. Debiprasad Duari (Director, Research and academic of M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Kolkata). He is a fellow of Royal astronomical society and a member of international astronomical union.
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