S2 Orbit Around Sagittarius A Star
His team tracks star S2 through a close orbit around Sagittarius A*, tightly constraining the compact mass at the Galactic Centre.
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Reinhard Genzel Biography and Timeline
Follow Reinhard Genzel through 4 dated historical records for Germany.
Reinhard Genzel, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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2002
2018
Relativity, Theory of
Genzel observes gravitational redshift in the orbit of S2 near the Milky Ways central black hole
2020
Nobel Prize for Galactic Centre Black Hole
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.
Records, sources and methodology
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