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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is related to “the darkest secrets in the universe.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday that the winners of the award are the British Roger Penrose, the German Reinhard genzel and the american Andrea Ghez for his findings on black holes.
Black holes are areas of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it.
Penrose gets half the prize for finding that black hole formation is a direct consequence of the general theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.
The other half of the award is shared by Genzel and Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive object at the center of our galaxy”, the Milky Way.
The supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way is known as Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *).
The week of the Nobel Prizes began this Monday with the Medicine Prize, which this year fell to the researchers Michael Houghton, Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
On Wednesday it will be the turn of Chemistry, Thursday Literature, Friday that of Peace and next Monday that of Economics.
All the awards are given on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder, Alfred Nobel, in parallel events in Stockholm, for scientists, Literature and Economics, while the Peace is held in Oslo.
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