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Nobel Prize 2020 for Physics
October 7 , 2020
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- The Nobel Prize 2020 in the Physics category has been awarded to Roger Penrose while the other half is jointly awarded to Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel.
- The three scientists have been awarded the prestigious prize for their ground-breaking discoveries about the black holes.
- So far 4 women, including the latest winner Andrea Ghez have won the prestigious award since it was first given in 1901.
discoveries
- Penrose: discovery that the black hole formation is a robust prediction for the general theory of Relativity.
- Ghez and Genzel: An invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy and a supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation.
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