Roger Penrose received half of the prize for his work showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez shared the other half for their discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez have got the 2020 Nobel Prize in which field?
Asked in WBCS Main Paper 4 2021 · Topic: Scientists & Inventions (Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Photoelectric Effect)
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