The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded British astrophysicist Roger Penrose half the prize,. German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez shared the other half.
Prof. Penrose, the of Oxford University, led the team, successfully predicting the existence of black holes. essentially saying ‘These objects exist”.
These mysterious, black holes form from when enormous gravity squeezes mass into an incredibly small space, The resulting gravity is so strong that nothing close, not even light can escape.
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