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This year’s Nobel Prize is about the darkest secrets of space.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award 2020 #Nobel Prize in Physics with half for Roger Penrose and the other half jointly for Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. pic.twitter.com/MipWwFtMjz– The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2020
The British R. Penrose, the German R. Genzel and the American A. Ghez became the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in our universe: black holes.
Professor R. Penrose of the University of Oxford used unprecedented mathematical methods to explore Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
The scientist has shown that this theory predicts the formation of huge black holes from which light cannot escape.
Meanwhile, Professor R. Genzel from the University of California, Berkeley, and A. Ghez, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, have discovered that the motion of the stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, is caused by an unbelievably heavy, invisible object at the center of the galaxy.
The only explanation for such an object known to science is that a supermassive black hole has formed in the center of Bird Trail. The stars in our galaxy, including the Sun, orbit around this black hole, and we all do it with it.
The Nobel laureates, in addition to international fame, will share 10 million. Swedish crowns (about 950 thousand euros)
The Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry will be announced on Wednesday.
The winners of the Literature and Peace Prizes, respectively, will be announced on Thursday and Friday, and Nobel Prize Week will end on Monday, October 12, with the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to James Peebles for Achievements in Physical Cosmology and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of the exoplanet. This exoplanet revolves around a star similar to the Sun.
Its discovery started a true revolution in astrophysics: since then more than 4,000 exoplanets have been found.
Predicting potential winners is always very difficult, as the awarding bodies keep the names of the nominees secret for 50 years.
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