The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded with
one half to
Roger Penrose of the Univ. of Oxford (UK),
for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
and the other half jointly to
Reinhard Genzel, Univ. of California, Berkeley (US) and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Germany),
and
Andrea Ghez, Univ. of Californa, Los Angeles (US)
for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
For more information, see the Nobel Prize press release “Black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret” at https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/