3 scientists share Physics Nobel for black hole breakthroughs

The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering “a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.”

The winners will share the prize money of 10 million kronor which is about £864,200. Chair of the physics prize committee, said this year's award "celebrates one of the most exotic objects in the Universe".

UK-born Roger Penrose invented ingenious mathematical methods to explore Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He showed that the theory leads to the formation of black holes, in time and space that capture everything that enters them.