Abstract
There have been many discoveries associated with black holes, areas of space-time that surround gravitationally completely collapsed objects, in recent years. In 2015, LIGO detectors first detected gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes.
This outstanding achievement was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. Last year, I was also able to write on the Astropis website about the first "picture" of a black hole in the center of the galaxy M87, taken by the radio interferometer EHT.
And now I've been given the opportunity to report on the latest Nobel Prize in Physics - again for black holes! As announced by the Royal Swedish Academy on October 6, 2020, half of the award went to Roger Penrose for his theoretical work on Einstein's general relativity, especially rigorous study of black hole models, and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for long-term observations demonstrating the existence of supermassive collapsed object in the center of our Galaxy.