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Posted: 2020-10-06T10:10:22Z | Updated: 2020-10-06T10:25:26Z

STOCKHOLM (AP) Three physicists won this years Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries related black holes.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Briton Roger Penrose will receive half of this years prize for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.

Goran K. Hansson, the academys secretary-general, said German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez will receive the second half of the prize for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.

It is common for several scientists who worked in related fields to share the prize. Last years prize went to Canadian-born cosmologist James Peebles for theoretical work about the early moments after the Big Bang, and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering a planet outside our solar system.

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The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor (more than $1.1 million), courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prizes creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The amount was increased recently to adjust for inflation.

On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize for physiology and medicine to Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton for discovering the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus .

The other prizes are for outstanding work in the fields of chemistry, literature, peace and economics.

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BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. pic.twitter.com/MipWwFtMjz

The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2020

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