On September 21, 2017, Françoise Combes received her award at Gothenburg Physics Centre, Sweden. The award recognizes her innovative approach to extragalactic astronomy.
During the award ceremony, Francoise Combes gave a lecture on: " When supermassive black holes get too greedy ".
"Most galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center, with masses ranging from a million to a few billion solar masses. As the mass of the black hole is proportional to that of the galaxy's bulge, there must be a close relationship between star and black hole formation.
We'll see how the black hole swallowing gas becomes an active core, and then rejecting their food, controls the rate of star formation in galaxies."
