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    HOW to FIND a BLACK HOLE

    Jan 01, 2022 3 minutes
    by Joseph Taylor and Plush

    Our galaxy spins around a supermassive black hole. How do we know? We went to ask Andrea Ghez, who first figured out it was there.

    Andrea Ghez studies objects in space and how the universe works. She’s an astrophysicist—and a great one. In 2020, she won the Nobel Prize for finding a huge black hole at the center of our own galaxy. Its edge is the size of a solar system, with the mass of four million suns.

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