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Andrea Ghez, Reinhard Genzel, and Roger Penrose just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about black holes

It's Nobel Prize time again, and this time, the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a trio of astrophysicists who made discoveries about black holes: Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a prediction of relativity and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the actual discovery of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. I've had the honor of interviewing Dr. Ghez a few times now, about the Milky Way's black hole and the environment at the core of the Milky Way. She's always been incredibly knowledgeable and generous with her time. Congrats to everyone involved!