The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

with one half to

Roger Penrose

University of Oxford, UK

• “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”

and the other half jointly to

Reinhard Genzel

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and University of California, Berkeley, USA

and

Andrea Ghez

University of California, Los Angeles, USA

• “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”

Information

Black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret

Ref

• https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/