Ventura County Astronomical Society
The Super Massive Black Hole
at the Center of Our Galaxy”
Friday, October 19th from 7:15 to 9 pm Moorpark College Forum 7075 Campus Rd, Moorpark, CA 93021 Admission and parking are FREE For more info go to: www.vcas.org Follow us on Facebook: Ventura County Astronomical Society |
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| Abstract
How do we “see” a black hole? How do we look for something that is invisible? This talk will tell you a story of how astronomers at UCLA found a supermassive black hole in the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy by observing stars around it that get strongly accelerated by its invisible but huge gravity. |
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| Bio:
Dr. Shoko Sakai received her B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from Dartmouth College. She then joined the HST Key Project on the extragalactic distance scale at IPAC and continued her work on distance scale at NOAO in Tucson. She has been a research astronomer at UCLA since 2000. Her work focused on several distance indicators and understanding their systematics, including the Cepheid variable stars, tip of the red giant branch method and Tully-Fisher relation for spiral galaxies. She also worked on star formation history of galaxies in nearby clusters of galaxies. She has recently joined the Galactic Center Group at UCLA |
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