Testing the Black Hole Paradigm in the Galactic Center with Infrared Interferometry

TYPE	Colloquium
Speaker:	Nobel Laureate, Prof. Reinhard Genzel
Affiliation:	Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics & University of California, Berkeley
Date:	03.05.2023
Time:	13:15 - 14:15
Location:	Lidow Rosen Auditorium (323)

Abstract:

Observations over the past 4 decades have provided strong evidence that the
central compact radio/IR source SgrA* is a 4.3 million solar mass black
hole. I will summarize this journey and discuss our most recent work, with
milli-arsecond infrared interferometry, of testing General Relativity and
the Massive Black Hole paradigm with precision astrometry and polarization
studies.