Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for black hole discoveries to Roger Penrose

This year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets of the universe,” said Göran K. Hansson, secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said at Tuesday’s ceremony in Stockholm. Penrose, a professor at the University of Oxford who worked with the late Stephen Hawking, showed that black holes must be a physical reality — proving … Read more

Göran K. Hansson, secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said at Tuesday’s ceremony in Stockholm that this year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets of universe.” This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine was jointly awarded to the US-UK trio of Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday for the … Read more