2020 Nobel Prize Laureates in Physics: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez

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For the second year in a row, the most prestigious Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded for theoretical research in gravity and cosmology and high-class astronomical observations. In 2019 it was awarded to J.Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and to astronomers M.Mayor and D.Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. In 2020 the Prize is awarded to mathematician R.Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and to the astronomers R.Genzel and A.Ghez “for the discovery of a super-massive compact object at the center of our galaxy”.

About the authors

K. A Postnov

Shternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: director@sai.msu.ru
Moscow, Russia

A. M Cherepashchuk

Shternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Moscow, Russia

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