Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020
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One half went to Roger Penrose for showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity. One quarter each went to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: Penrose one half for robust relativistic black-hole formation; Genzel and Ghez one quarter each for the Galactic-centre compact object.
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