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Pope Francis has appointed a California-based astrophysicist to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican announced Friday.
The Holy Father nominated Andrea Mia Ghez as an ordinary member of the Vatican City-based academy.
Ghez’s website says she is “best known for her groundbreaking work on the center of our galaxy, which has led to the best evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes.”
Her work contributed to the “discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way’s galactic center,” her website states.
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The Holy Father nominated Andrea Mia Ghez as an ordinary member of the Vatican City-based academy.
Ghez’s website says she is “best known for her groundbreaking work on the center of our galaxy, which has led to the best evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes.”
Her work contributed to the “discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way’s galactic center,” her website states.
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Pope appoints UCLA astrophysicist to Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Andrea Mia Ghez, recognized for her groundbreaking research on black holes, is one of only four women to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
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