Reinhard Genzel: 'Completely unexpected and, wow, I'm on cloud 17.'

In keeping with the times, Reinhard Genzel was in the middle of a virtual conference when he was surprised by the call announcing, "This is Stockholm!" In this interview with Adam Smith he briefly summarises his 40 year effort to image the galactic centre, which began with his joining his "second father", 1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics Charles Townes, as a postdoc in Berkeley. Genzel describes the new technological developments that allow him to sense the gravity of the supermassive black hole by observing the motion of the stars orbiting it with exquisite precision, and looks ahead to possible future tests of the theory of general relativity in the decades to come.

[thesaltedlamp]

It is incredible to hear Dr. Genzel's thoughts and words regarding his award and his research! It is especially fascinating to hear his future goals/predictions, and hopefully we'll get to it sooner rather than later!

[dr.rakshitstark]

Congratulations! Sir🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🎉🎉🎉🎉

[agelgayuhealer]

Congratulations again, sir...from ethiopia🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

[ijazahmed]

That's awesome. Kudos to your extraordinary hard work sir. Also, to all the other winners. Waiting desperately for chemistry winners.

[hkumar]

Congratulations, Prof. Genzel, on your well-deserved recognition. Sharing your Nobel with Sir Roger Penrose must be another great honour!!

[johnathanlivingstonseagull]

Great discovery. A little shared on how would only lead to more questions. Thank you.

[vast]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch Professor Genzel

[ashutoshmani]

For me it is hard to pronounce your name
Reinhard genzel
Congratulations 👍

[abhiramviswanathan]

There are always those who would try to be with the current generation

[mitenmahato]

A big condolences to all the People who think Einstein general theory of relativity sucks🤫🤫