Black hole researchers win 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

Oxford professor Roger Penrose shares top honour with German physicist Reinhard Genzel and US-born Andrea Ghez, only the fourth woman to win prize

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October 6, 2020
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Jack Grove
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Source: Alamy/Patrick Kunkel/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
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