How the world came to understand black holes – EarthSky

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. They are joint winners of 2020’s Nobel Prize in physics for their work on black holes. Image via Nobel Media.
Earlier this month (October 6, 2020), the Nobel Prize in physics was announced for two groundbreaking discoveries in astrophysics, both centered on black holes. Half of 2020s prize went to mathematician Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity….

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