Nobel Prize in Physics: three laureates for their research on black holes
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Nobel Prize
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The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded this year to Briton Roger Penrose for having demonstrated that the formation of black holes prefigured the general theory of relativity, and for the other half to the American Andrea Ghez and the German Reinhard Genzel, for the discovery of a compact supermassive object at the center of our galaxy.
This is the second award of the week after the Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded yesterday Monday.
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Three researchers share this Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: the British Roger Penrose, the German Reinhard Genzel and the American Andrea Ghez.
Roger Penrose wins the famous prize for having discovered "
that the formation of a black hole is a solid prediction of the theory of general relativity
", while Genzel and Ghez are awarded for "
the discovery of a compact supermassive object in the center of our galaxy
”, explained the Nobel jury when announcing the prize in Stockholm on Tuesday 6 October.
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