Britain's Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and American Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Yet he did not actually believe in black holes, and finding a way to prove their existence baffled scientists for another 50 years. Instead it would be "carried all the way into the centre of the black hole, where time ends and the known laws of physics cease to apply". Asked by Reuters what was the biggest riddle about black holes, Penrose said: "The greatest puzzle is the singularities, because we don't know what to do with them: You see the black holes shield us from the singularities. The Nobel prizes were created in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since 1901.

Source: The Star October 06, 2020 15:33 UTC