Black holes and the supermassive compact object at the Galactic center: multi-arts of thought and nature

Abstract

This is an invited commentary on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 which was awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity," and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy."

arXiv comment5 pages, 1 figure. Published in The Innovation

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• Closest Star Seen Orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way
• Observational constraints on growth of massive black holes
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