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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for black hole discoveries that revealed the ‘darkest secrets of the universe’ – jacksonprogress-argus
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries about black holes.
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries about black holes.
This year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets of the universe,” said Göran K. Hansson, secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said at Tuesday’s ceremony in Stockholm.
Penrose, a professor at the University of Oxford who worked with the late Stephen Hawking, showed that black holes must be a physical reality — proving Einstein’s…
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