Penrose Shares Nobel Physics Prize for Black Hole Research

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for their research into the darkest corners of the universe.

Penrose was honored “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement on Tuesday. He will be sharing the prize with Genzel and Ghez, for their “discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy,” it said.