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Roger penrose, Reinhard genzel me Andrea Ghez are the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, announced the Swedish Academy this Tuesday (6), for discoveries about black holes, a place in space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
The winners will share the amount of SEK 10 million (around R $ 6.3 million).
- Roger penroseThe 89-year-old British man showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes; will stay with means, medium Of the prize. He is a professor at the University of Oxford, UK.
- Reinhard genzel, 68-year-old German, and Andrea Ghez, 55-year-old American will take the other half for the discovery of a supermassive compact object in the center of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole is the only known explanation for this today.
- Genzel It is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and the University of California at Berkeley, United States.
- Ghez She is the first woman to be awarded this year and the fourth to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in the history of the award. (since 1901). He teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), also in the US.
“I am excited to receive the award. I take the responsibility of being the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize very seriously. [em física]. I hope I can inspire other young women to an area that has so many pleasures, if you have a passion for science. There is much to do ”, said the scientist.
Scientist Andrea Ghez, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics and the fourth woman awarded in the category since 1901. – Photo: Jan Norden, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences / Twitter Nobel Prize
Since 1901, the first year the Nobel Prize was awarded, only Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), and Donna Strickland (2018) have been awarded with Physics.
- Women represent only 5% of Nobel Prize winners since 1901
The illustration shows the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez – Photo: Reproduction / Twitter / Nobel
The Nobel committee assessed that the work of Penrose “He used ingenious mathematical methods in his demonstration that black holes are a direct consequence of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.”
The work of Genzel me Ghez “gave science the most compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way“considered the Swedish Academy.
“Penrose shows, through the theory of relativity, that it is possible that these objects [buracos negros] exists and the singularity, in the center of the black hole, in which all physics dies out. He predicts that these things can exist ”, explains Eliade Ferreira Lima, astrophysicist and professor at the Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa), in Uruguaiana, in Rio Grande do Sul.
Roger Penrose is one of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics – Photo: Playback / Twitter / Nobel / Wikimedia Commons
“The other discovery, in fact, is the observation of the movement of the stars around something extremely massive in the center of our galaxy. It has the proof of the prediction. It has the mathematical prediction and the observation of a movement around something that has all the characteristics of a black hole. She [Ghez] it just doesn’t say that because it didn’t see the black hole, it saw the movement of the stars around it“Lima explains.
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“Except that we have already observed holes in galaxies similar to ours, then everything leads us to believe that there is a black hole here ”, adds the researcher.
Shortly after the result was announced, scientist Andrea Ghez responded to a question about what’s inside a black hole:
“We have no idea what is inside the black hole, they are breaking the understanding of the laws of physics,” he said.
The medical degree was the first to be announced, on Monday (5). Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice won the award for discovering the hepatitis C virus. ”
The awards in Chemistry, Literature me Peace It will be delivered later this week; the degree in Economics will be announced next Monday (12). See schedule:
- Medicine: Monday October 5
- Physical: Tuesday 6th October
- Chemistry: Wednesday October 7
- Literature: Thursday October 8
- Peace: Friday October 9
- Economy: Monday October 12
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