Expand / Picture of the nighttime skies over Paranal, Chile, on July 21, 2007, revealing that the civic centre of the Milky Way. The laser produces a guide-star for your telescope. (charge: European Southern Observatory/Y. Beletsky)
The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded into Roger Penrose“because of the discovery that black hole formation is still a strong prediction of the overall theory of relativity.”
Penrose, the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, will get half the 10 million Swedish kronor (over US$1.1 million) prize cash. He helped contradict the theoretical base to black hole physics at the 1960s by offering the seminal mathematical evidence that black holes have been an immediate result of general relativity.
Genzel is acting manager of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and also a professor in the University of California, Berkeley, although Ghez is currently a professor in the University of California, Los Angeles. They’ll each get one-quarter of their prize money. Genzel and Ghez every lead novelty groups which have mapped out the orbits of celebrities nearest to the heart of the Milky Way–a place called Sagittarius A–providing us the very best evidence so far that there’s a supermassive black hole in our galaxy’s centre. This work was helped immeasurably by the evolution of advanced adaptive optics instruments to counter the distorting effects of the Earth’s air.
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