The Monster of the Milky Way

The Aspen Center for Physics organizes weekly public lectures durings its winter conferences and its summer workshops.

This week the public lecture was by Roni Harnik of Fermilab on “The Higgs Boson and the Mystery of Mass.” The lectures are videoed by Aspen Grassroots television, and archived, and are very slowly being added to the Aspen Physics youtube channel.

This winter, Prof. Andrea Ghez, UCLA gave one of the public lectures at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen: "The Monster of the Milky Way", on the central supermassive black hole in our galaxy.

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