The lecture by Physics Nobel Laureate Prof. Reinhard Genzel on October 23, 2024 will be broadcast as an online lecture in the TU Dresden Audimax. Reinhard Genzel unfortunately had to cancel his trip for health reasons. In order to still be able to report to the Dresden audience about his discovery of the giant black hole in our universe and his current research, the Nobel Prize winner will give his lecture via live broadcast and will also be available for questions afterwards. The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium Center of TU Dresden. The lecture will be held in German.

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of black holes in his theory of relativity in 1915. Nevertheless, many scientists, above all Einstein himself, did not believe for a long time that they really existed. It was not until 2018 that Reinhard Genzel and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and a second group led by Andrea Ghez in California were able to use high-precision measurements to show that there must be a huge black hole with a mass of 4 million solar masses at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Genzel and Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 for this discovery.

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, Reinhard Genzel will give an online lecture entitled "Galaxien und Schwarze Löcher" in the Audimax of TU Dresden as part of the public lecture series "Nobel Laureates at TU Dresden". He will be welcomed on site by the Chairman of the School of Science, Prof. Carsten Timm and Vice-Rector University Culture  Prof. Roswitha Böhm. The lecture will be held in German and admission is free.

About Reinhard Genzel:

Astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Reinhard Genzel (born on March 24, 1952 in Bad Homburg) is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Professor at the Graduate School for Physics and Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of infrared and submillimeter astronomy. His core research areas are experimental astrophysics, black holes, galactic nuclei, galaxy evolution, star formation and extragalactic astrophysics.

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