Compact objects and Black Holes: Nobel Prize for Physics 2020
Popular Physics
2020-12-17 v1
Abstract
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 has been divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose 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 and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy. Here we describe their work and put it in historical context and discuss specific advances that have been rewarded.
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@article{arxiv.2012.08774,
title = {Compact objects and Black Holes: Nobel Prize for Physics 2020},
author = {J S Bagla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08774},
year = {2020}
}
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11 pages