2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

Stockholm - 6 October 2020. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to

• Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK

“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, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and University of California, Berkeley, USA

and

• Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

“for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”

Read the complete press release here.