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NEWS FOR THE PUBLIC

UPCOMING TALKS AND SHOWS

Stay tuned for upcoming public talks and media-shows.

SELECTED PREVIOUS SHOWS & TALKS

How do you observe something you can't see?
Watch Professor Andrea Ghez's TED talk
See the Galactic Center Group members in action at Keck Observatory!

TV & RADIO

  • Bytemarks Cafe
    Professor Jessica Lu talks about science and adaptive optics with Thirty Meter Telescope, including the Galactic Center.

  • PBS - NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way
    Featuring Prof. Andrea Ghez. A NOVA production that explores the question of whether a supermassive black hole lurks at the center of our Galaxy.

  • Professor Becklin
    Prof. Eric Becklin accounts for how he was the first to discover the location of the Galactic Center.

  • THE FORUM
    A BBC podcast interview where Andrea Ghez explains how the UCLA Galactic Center group uses adaptive optics on the Keck telescopes to observe stars zooming around the Milky Way's central black hole (2009 July 26).

  • Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
    Podcast from Australian Broadcasting Corp's Science Show (2006 June 17).

PUBLIC TALKS & INTERVIEWS

ARTICLES

Data from Keck Observatory -The increase in the brightness is evidence of black hole accretion!

SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITS

Topics involving the Galactic Center Group's research has been feateured in several museum exhibitions.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS