The Swedish Academy of Sciences gave half the recognition to the British Roger Penrose “for the discovery that the formation of black holes is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and for the other half jointly with the German Reinhard Genzel and the American Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy “.
Three laureates share this year’s #NobelPrize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. pic.twitter.com/4twFY61D3W
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2020
In the motivation, the academy explains that Penrose was awarded for “ingenious mathematical methods that explored Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity” and “showed that the theory leads to the formation of black holes, those monsters in time and space. that capture everything that enters it “. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez found that “an extremely heavy and invisible object rules the orbits of the stars at the center of our galaxy, a supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation”.
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