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2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries – The Conversation US
The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists – an Englishman, an American and a German – for breakthroughs in understanding the most mysterio…

Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity an infinitely hot and dense object within. But if black holes exist and are truly black, how exactly would we ever be able to make an observation?
Andrea Ghez, the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics.Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
This morning the Nobel Committee announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics will be awarded…
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