Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel (left to right) received the 2020 Nobel physics prize for their research on black holes. (David Levenson/Getty, Christopher Dibble, ESO/M. Zamani)
Black-hole physicists win Nobel prize
Three physicists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries related to the most massive and mysterious objects in the Universe — black holes. Roger Penrose received half the prize for theoretical work in the 1960s that showed how Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity should result in regions with a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel won the other half of the award for their discovery of what is considered the Universe’s most famous example of the phenomenon — the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way.
Ghez is only the fourth woman to win the physics Nobel. “I hope I can inspire other young women into the field,” she said. “It’s a field that has so many pleasures.”
Nature | 3 min read
Ghez is only the fourth woman to win the physics Nobel. “I hope I can inspire other young women into the field,” she said. “It’s a field that has so many pleasures.”
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