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Published 6 October 2020 by LINO News

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea M. Ghez, 2020 Nobel Laureates in Physics, Copyright: Nobel Media 2020. Illustration: Niklas Elmehed

On Tuesday, 6 October 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 to Roger Penrose “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 and Andrea M. Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.

Find out more about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics here.