“Three scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand black holes. Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were announced as this year’s winners at a news conference in Stockholm. The winners will share the prize money of 10 million krona (£864,200). David Haviland, chair of the physics prize committee, said this year’s award ‘celebrates one of the most exotic objects in the Universe’. Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them.”
“UK-born physicist Sir Roger, from the University of Oxford, demonstrated that black holes were an inevitable consequence of Albert’s Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Penrose receives half of this year’s prize, with the other half being shared by Genzel and Ghez. Prof Ghez is only the fourth woman to win the physics prize, out of more than 200 laureates since 1901. The other female recipients are Marie Curie, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and Donna Strickland – who won in 2018” – BBC.