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Supermassive black holes are unfathomably large and complicated. Thankfully cosmologist and astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma can simplify them for us all.
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Sources:
Chung-Pei Ma:
http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~cpma/
“Chung-Pei Ma is a cosmologist and astrophysicist. Among the topics Chung-Pei has studied are the properties of dark matter and dark energy, the cosmic microwave background, gravitational lensing, galaxy formation and evolution, supermassive black holes, and the large-scale structure of the universe."
Senate Faculty:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/faculty-profile/chungpei-ma
“Specialty Areas: Theoretical cosmology; dark matter and energy; galaxy and structure formation; black holes; gravitational lensing; cosmic microwave background."
2003 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Recipient:
https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Chung-Pei&last_nm=Ma&year=2003
“Chung-Pei Ma received both her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987, 1993). While studying particle physics and theoretical cosmology with Alan Guth and Edmund Bertschinger at MIT, she was enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston for violin performance classes."
Newly Discovered Massive Black Holes Dwarf Previous Record Holders:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-july-dec11-blackholes_12-06/
“Finally tonight, they’re big, they’re scary, and, lucky for us, they’re about 300 million light years away."
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