News | 02.06.2009
Charles Bailyn Is Honored for Work Measuring Galactic Black Holes
New Haven, Conn. — How do you weigh something you can't even see? Charles Bailyn, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Astronomy and Physics, knows how to do it.
The Bruno Rossi Prize of the AAS for 2009 is awarded to Charles D. Bailyn, Jeffrey E. McClintock, and Ronald A. Remillard
The 2009 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society is awarded to Charles D. Bailyn, Jeffrey E. McClintock, and Ronald A. Remillard for their measurement of the masses of Galactic black holes.
Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (background) NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)
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