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GATHERING IN WASHINGTON

On 2 December Professor Roger Davies, Emeritus Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, gave a talk to a group of alumni at the offices of Savills in Washington DC kindly hosted by David Lipson (1987, PPE).
20 Dec 2024
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Professor Roger Davies
Professor Roger Davies
Over welcome drinks Professor Davies gave a brief update of news from the House and spoke on `Galaxies & Black holes’. There was a lively interaction during the talk which ranged from Roger Penrose’s prediction that black holes exist to the discovery of
a black hole of mass four million times that of the Sun in the centre of the Milky Way – a discovery that led to the award of the Nobel prize in 2020.
 

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