The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Awarded on: 2020-10-06
"for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andrea Ghez
Born: 1965-06-16 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: female
Field: American astronomer (born 1965)
Biography
Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy". This object is generally recognized to be a black hole.