Black hole breakthroughs win Nobel physics prize:
Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand black holes. Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were announced as this year's winners at a news conference in Stockholm. The winners will share the prize money of 10 million kronor (£864,200). Swedish industrialist and chemist Alfred Nobel founded the prizes in his will, written in 1895 - a year before his death.
David Haviland, chair of the physics prize committee, said this year's award "celebrates one of the most exotic objects in the Universe".
UK-born physicist Roger Penrose demonstrated that black holes were an inevitable consequence of Albert's Einstein's theory of general relativity. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez provided the most convincing evidence yet of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy - the Milky Way.
Also at: ABC News, phys.org, Nobel Foundation, and c|net.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jelizondo on Tuesday October 06 2020, @05:31PM (5 children)
High time Roger Penrose got a Nobel, he's a very out-of-the-box thinker and has made many contributions to Physics, Mathematics and other fields.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:17PM (2 children)
It's weird that there were youtube videos cropping up in my suggestions about penrose tiling literally just one week ago. I feel like someone leaked the upcoming win.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @08:46PM
Weird or damning that the five member googling efforts, is all it took to trigger the yt butterflies?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @05:49PM
A friend commented that, "... now Penrose has enough money to re-tile his bathroom."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:51PM
He's that guy who patents geometrical shapes, right?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Unixnut on Tuesday October 06 2020, @07:26PM
Indeed, I have had the privilege of being in on one of his lectures in Oxford, and then got to talk to the guy afterwards. He was fascinating, and did very much have out of the box thinking. Alas I doubt I will ever be in his presence again, but he did have quite an impact on me.
A congratulations are in order for his Nobel.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @05:33PM (1 child)
s/t
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday October 06 2020, @05:50PM
You Sir owe me a new snark detector. It exploded.
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(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:51PM (4 children)
These Nobel Prize people are not keeping up with the latest scientific discoveries since they didn't give a prize to Trump yet for finding the cure for COVID. He has made the biggest discovery of the century, certainly bigger than black holes. The only explanation is that the Nobel Prize committee is infiltrated with Democrats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2020, @06:55PM
And George Soros.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @05:12AM (2 children)
I guess that would explain Obama's Noble Peace Prize :P
(As much as I hate the partisan American politics this site has been flooded with as of late - this snark was just too tempting to pass up)
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday October 07 2020, @04:40PM (1 child)
To be fair the Nobel Peace Prize isn't awarded due to scientific discovery. Whether Obama deserved one is up for debate (even Obama didn't think so).
There is no way in hell Trump would ever qualify. Maybe if there was a Nobel Asshole Prize; then he'd so a shoo-in.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @05:33PM
I think he's referring to the "Noble Prizes" that Trump wanted all those journalists to give back.