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Trio win Nobel Physics Prize for black hole research
STOCKHOLM, Oct 6, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard
Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize on
Tuesday for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury said.
Half of the prize went to Penrose for showing “that the general theory of
relativity leads to the formation of black holes”, and the other half went to
Genzel and Ghez for discovering “that an invisible and extremely heavy object
governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy,” the jury said.
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