this is deja vu news live from berlin the winners of the 2020 nobel prize for physics are announced in stockholm 3 scientists take the award for their breakthroughs involving black holes they include andrea gets 2 becomes only the 4th woman to win the prestigious physics prize. also coming up a political crisis unfolding and purchase down the country unknowns parliamentary

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gensler and american astronomer andrea gets won the prestigious prize for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe andrea gets joined to the press conference in stockholm on the phone and talked about what went through her head when she made the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy and. i think the 1st thing is. you have to prove to yourself that you're really seeing what you think you're seeing so both get out and excitement and it's it's that feeling of being at the frontier of research where you have to always question what you're seeing so it's a combination of tricks. oh let's get more on that we are joined by lee albright from d.w. science did this come as a surprise this announcement today. not really normally it is quite a because of

a surprise who wins the nobel prize this year but this time it wasn't such a big surprise for me at least because last year there was the 1st image of a black hole published so it was already kind of in focus so talk with us a little bit more about what that means about the research that these 3 have been doing well it's one of the most exotic objects that exists in our universe so it's really fascinating to know more about it for many years the very idea of the existence of a black hole was questioned by many physicists so it wasn't really clear if this existed and many where it was a strange idea to them a black hole i mean imagine a black hole let's just have the image of the earth and put it down to the size of a piece that's how a black that's how massive a black hole is how much energy it really has and then penrose one of the nobel prize winners he was the 1st to use einstein's general theory of relativity to

prove mathematically that a black hole can exist and then guns and gays.