# Reinhard Genzel (@reinhard-genzel)

Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist whose team used infrared observations to establish that a supermassive compact object lies at the center of the Milky Way.

He shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Andrea Ghez for this discovery and is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Reinhard Genzel's public record._

## Topics

- [Galaxies and Black-Hole Growth](/@reinhard-genzel/galaxies-and-black-hole-growth.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Infrared Instrumentation](/@reinhard-genzel/infrared-instrumentation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Stellar Orbits Around Sagittarius A*](/@reinhard-genzel/stellar-orbits-around-sagittarius-a.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobel.mpg.de/en/reinhard-genzel
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/genzel/biographical/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/03/genzel-lecture.pdf

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "reinhard-genzel", "question": "…"}`.