The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
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Roger Penrose
Prize share: 1/2
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Bernhard Ludewig
Reinhard Genzel
Prize share: 1/4
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Stefan Bladh.
Andrea Ghez
Prize share: 1/4
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
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