While Penrose is most famous, the other two 2020 Nobel winners, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, are equally interesting. They did the big stunt telescopy to discover the blackhole at the core of our galaxy.https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/ …
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I’m still struggling to photograph Jupiter well, so not going to be getting to the blackhole anytime soon 
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That photo is really recent... 2018. And while we’re at it, have another black hole picture from this year. M87. Great time to be alive if you’re into astronomy.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02717-3 …
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We can see black holes, discs of distant stars, detect exosolar planets, gravitational lensing... We’ve seen Pluto. Cassini and Juno have made Saturn and Jupiter as familiar as the moon. Telescope sizes are exploding. Biggest leap forward in astronomy since the 1600s. A party
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