Now showing

Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole

TED Talks200900:16:27Creative Commons
Poster for Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole

About this film

With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. She shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the Milky Way.

Directors & creators

TED.com

Subjects

TEDTalks, TED, Talks, astronomy, exploration, physics, science, space, technology, TEDGlobal 2009, 2009

View on archive.org ↗

More from this pool

TED Talks

See all →