Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez used the Keck telescopes and adaptive optics to follow stars orbiting the centre of the Milky Way with extraordinary precision. Her measurements, independent of Genzel's, confirmed a four-million-solar-mass black hole, Sagittarius A*. In 2020 she became the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

• Independently proved the Milky Way hosts a central supermassive black hole
• Pioneered adaptive-optics imaging of the Galactic Center with Keck
• Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)

• The Milky Way's Central Black Holec. 2020 CE

• Nobel Prize in Physics2020

• Part ofContemporary Astronomy
• Worked atW. M. Keck Observatory
• ReceivedNobel Prize in Physics
• DiscoveredThe Milky Way's Central Black Hole
• StudiesBlack Hole
• StudiesSupermassive Black Hole