{"id":454,"date":"2020-10-06T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2020-10-12T01:26:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T01:26:44","slug":"physics-nobel-prize-2020-black-holes-awarded-3-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/physics-nobel-prize-2020-black-holes-awarded-3-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Nobel Prize in physics for work on black holes awarded to 3 scientists: Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/empty-universe.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/black-hole-physics-nobel-prize-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/2020-nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-for-work-on-black-holes-an-astrophysicist-explains-the-trailblazing-discoveries-147614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity \u2013 an infinitely hot and dense object within.<\/a><br>\nThis morning the Nobel Committee announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics will be awarded to three scientists \u2013 Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez \u2013 who helped discover the answers to such profound questions. Andrea Ghez is only the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics.<br><br>\n\nRobert Penrose is a theoretical physicist who works on black holes. Sir Roger Penrose won half the prize for his seminal work in 1965 which proved, using a series of mathematical arguments, that under very general conditions, collapsing matter would trigger the formation of a black hole. The remaining half of the prize was shared between astronomers Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, who each lead a team that discovered the presence of a supermassive black hole, 4 million times more massive than the Sun, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/2020-nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-for-work-on-black-holes-an-astrophysicist-explains-the-trailblazing-discoveries-147614\">Roger Penrose via Wikimedia, and Science Photo Library &#8211; MARK GARLICK \/ Getty Images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity \u2013 an infinitely hot and dense object within. This morning the Nobel Committee announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics will be awarded<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/physics-nobel-prize-2020-black-holes-awarded-3-scientists\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,12],"tags":[26,27,39,35,31,33,34],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-scientific-mind","post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}