Roger Penrose (Mathematician) Shares The Nobel Prize In Physics With Two Other Astronomers, Andrea Ghez & Reinhard Genzel, On Discovering A Giant Black Hole In The Mily | Technology Times

Richard Feynman, the American theoretical physicist, once said: “Mathematicians are only dealing with the structure of the reasoning and they do not really care about what they’re talking. The physicist, on the other hand, has meaning to all the phrases.” observes Abid Amin Naeem, research scholar at department of Mathematics at COMSATS University Islamabad.

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The Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics for the discoveries concerning the massive and mysterious compact objects in the Universe, like black holes, was shared by a  physicist and two astronomers. Roger Penrose, 89, a British mathematical physicist, earns half of the award for his theoretical frame work that showed how the general relativity theory of Albert Einstein can result in the black holes that have a strong gravitational force that even light cannot escape through it. On the other hand US astronomer Andrea Ghez, and the German astronomer Reinhard Genzel, share the other half of the US$ 1.1-million (10-million-kronor) prize for the discovery of a compact object at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy...

General relativity to geometry

In a seminal paper (1965), Roger Penrose showed how black holes could form, according to general relativity, provided the right conditions, the creation of the surface that traps the light. Mass enters an inevitable gravitational collapse within this rock, creating a area called a singularity, of infinitely dense energy. This inevitability was seen by previous researchers only under conditions which were considered physically impossible.

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Source: Technology Times