{"id":114652,"date":"2020-10-18T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nobel-prize-in-physics-winner"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:25:30","slug":"nobel-prize-in-physics-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nobel-prize-in-physics-winner","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Physics Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nobel-prize-in-physics-winner2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unbelievable all that\u2019s going on at the moment in astronomy\u201d \u2014 DER SPIEGEL \u2014 international.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>DER SPIEGEL:<\/strong> Wherever black holes are discussed, that picture is shown. And you are now telling us that we don\u2019t really even know what it is?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genzel:<\/strong> Exactly. It could be that we are looking at the shadow of a black hole, as it is commonly portrayed. But it could also be the outer wall of a jet that is coming directly at us at the speed of light. To know for sure, we need additional measurements. But we have a problem at the moment: the corona pandemic. Most Earth-based telescopes have been switched off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DER SPIEGEL:<\/strong> Tell us a little bit about your research. What is the importance of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unbelievable all that\u2019s going on at the moment in astronomy\u201d \u2014 DER SPIEGEL \u2014 international. DER SPIEGEL: Wherever black holes are discussed, that picture is shown. And you are now telling us that we don\u2019t really even know what it is? Genzel: Exactly. It could be that we are looking at the shadow of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}