understanding of black holes british mathematician roger penrose german at the astrophysicist reinhard council and american astronomer andrea gets won the prize for breakthroughs on one of the most mystifying phenomena in the universe. black holes and the darkest mystery of the milky way that's not a science fiction title it's how the royal swedish academy describes the work that won this year's nobel prize in physics. the royal swedish academy of sciences has today decided to award to 2020 nobel prize in physics with one with 2 roger penrose and the other half jointly 2 and 3 ideas and dr knot council for the discovery of the superman a seed compact object at the center of our galaxy german scientists reinhard ganso has done research at the max planck institute for extraterrestrial physics near munich mind you. might have succeeded in demonstrating that the object at the center of the milky way must be a massive black hole he was from. that means that the general theory of relativity applies there. as he shares the prize with american physicist andrea gaze and her team who calculated the exac