UPCOMMING TALKS AND SHOWS

Stay tuned for upcoming public talks and media-shows.

SELCECTED PREVIOUS SHOWS & TALKS

• 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.


• FIND THE TITLE OF THE PROGRAM
  Prof. Eric Becklin accounts for how he was the first to discover the location of the Galactic Center.


• UNIVERSE TODAY
  Prof. Mark Morris discusses star collisions at the center of the Milky Way.


• BBC PODCAST - More evidence of supermassive black hole (in our Galaxy)
  Inteview with Andrea Ghez, discussing the new discovery of S0-102 (2012 October 4).


• THE STAR SPOT - The Mysterious Centre of the Milky Way Galaxy - PODCAST
  Leo Meyer joins Justin Trottier to discuss UCLA research group’s discovery of S0-102 (2012 November 16).


• Harcourt C. Vernon Memorial Lecture
  Presented in 2012 by Professor Mark Morris at University of Delaware.


• SKY & TELESCOPE
  Featured article about the Galactic Center Group's Research.


• 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).


• PBS - NOVA
  Article about Prof. Andrea Ghez and the discovery of the Black Hole in the Galactic Center.
  


• UNIVERSE TODAY - What’s at the center of our Galaxy? by Fraser Cain
  An article and video clip featuring Prof. Ghez explaining some of the exciting discoveries made in the Galactic center.


• Articles about the mysterious source, G2, and its impending approach to the supermassive black hole, Sgr A*:


• SCIENCE MAGAZINE - Decade of the Monster by Ron Cowen.


• BBC - Black Hole's ‘Big Meal’ Could Spark Fireworks by James Morgan.


• NEW SCIENTIST - Gas Blob Comes Late to Black Hole Supper by Victoria Jaggard.


• HUFFINGTON POST - Milky Way's Huge Black Hole to Gobble Gas Cloud Soon by Nola Taylor Redd.


• KECK OBSERVATORY’S E-MAGAZINE COSMIC MATTERS - An Absolute Revolution by Andrea Ghez.
  An article on the role that Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics has played in research on the center of our Galaxy. P


• SMITHSONIAN - Homing in on Black Holes by Robert Irion
  This featured cover story of Smithsonian Magazine describes how Andrea Ghez and the UCLA Galactic Center group have "homed in" on our Galaxy's supermassive black hole.


• SCIENCE MAGAZINE - The Milky Way's Dark, Starving Pit by Robert Irion.
  An article in Science magazine on the discovery of fast moving stars in the Galactic center.


• WASHINGTON POST - Huge Black Holes May Hold Keys to Galaxy Formation by Marc Kaufman.
  An article discussing the relationship betwen supermassive black holes, like the one in the Galactic center, and the formation of galaxies. Published in the Washington Post.


• SKY & TELESCOPE - Milky Way’s Central Monster Measured by Robert Naeye.
  An article published in Sky and Telescope about how the UCLA Galactic Center Group has measured the mass of the Milky Way’s central black hole.

SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITS

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

• Griffith Observatory Exhibit.
  Opened 2006 - Los Angeles, USA.


• Ontario Science Center Exhibit.
  Opened 2007 - Ontario, Canada.


• National Academy of Sciences.
  Keck Building - Washington D.C., USA.


• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Traveling Exhibits. The Poster Project - Visualizing Women in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. By P. D. Kivelson.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS

• You Can Be a Woman Astronomer.
  By Andrea Mia Ghez and Judith Love Cohen.


• The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy.
  By Fulvio Melia.


• Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe.
  By Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees.


• Astrometry for Astrophysics.
  Edited by William F van Altena.


• The Bays Mountain Planetarium.
  The plentarium in Kingsport, Tennessee is currently featuring the Galactic center in two planetarium programs: "Appalachian Skies" and "Under the Milky Way".