Research On Black Holes Wins 2020 Nobel Prize In Physics
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).
David Haviland, chair of the physics prize committee, said this year's award "celebrates one of the most exotic objects in the Universe".
Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them.
UK-born physicist Sir Roger Penrose, from the University of Oxford, demonstrated that black holes were an inevitable consequence of Albert's Einstein's theory of general relativity.
He receives half of this year's prize, with the other half going to Genzel and Ghez. Prof Ghez is only the fourth woman to win the physics prize, out of more than 200 laureates since 1901.
The other female recipients are Marie Curie, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and Donna Strickland - who won in 2018.
