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A black hole is an object so compact that nothing can escape its gravitational pull, not even light. They are formed when stars die and start collapsing under their own weight. Deep inside the black hole resides an infinitely hot and dense object, a so-called, singularity. Science Photo Library - MARK GARLICK/Getty Images

2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries

Gaurav Khanna, UMass Dartmouth

The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists – an Englishman, an American and a German – for breakthroughs in understanding the most mysterious objects in the universe: black holes.

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  1. Andrea Ghez
  2. Astronomy
  3. Black holes
  4. Milky Way Galaxy
  5. Nobel Prize
  6. Physics
  7. Roger Penrose
  8. Singularity
  9. Space

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