3 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Physics For Discoveries Related To Black Holes

"Perhaps fittingly for the year 2020, the Nobel Prize in physics has recognized research on black holes."

"The prize was awarded to Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford, for demonstrating that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes; and to Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles, for the discovery of a compact object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that governs the orbits of stars, for which a black hole is the only known explanation."

"Black holes are just what the name suggests — places where the gravitational pull is so great that nothing, not even light, can escape. Their existence was first suggested shortly after Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory of relativity in 1915. The theory postulates that the force of gravity is actually a warping of space-time caused by massive things like stars and planets. The theory suggested that there could exist an object so massive that it would cause space-time to collapse, trapping everything that came near it."