Tag: Milky Way

• If It Wasn’t For Disappointment, I Wouldn’t Have Any Appointments

  In two talks in the fall of 2012, I used an incredible image produced by the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory, reproduced here. My presentations were on black holes—particularly the supermassive black holes that lurk in the nuclei of nearly every large galaxy in the known Universe. (You can read summaries of these presentations both here…

  Matthew R. Francis

  January 5, 2013

  Astronomy, Personal Musings

  Milky Way, star formation, supermassive black holes