Physics Nobel Prize 2020 Awarded To Roger Penrose, Andrea M. Ghez, Reinhard Genzel For Black Hole Research

Physics Nobel Prize 2020 Awarded To Roger Penrose, Andrea M. Ghez, Reinhard Genzel For Black Hole Research

Physics Nobel Prize 2020 Awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea M. Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel for their pioneering work on black holes and Milky Way’s darkest secret.

Roger Penrose, Andrea M. Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on space involving the black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret.

What is black hole?

Black hole is a region of space time where gravity is so strong that nothing-no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light- can escape from it. This theory general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform space time to form black hole.

The Academy said Roger Penrose was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.         

Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez jointly won the second half of the prize, awarded “for the discovery of a super massive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”, the academy said.