3 Scientists Win Nobel Physics Prize for Black Hole Finds

David Haviland, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics (L) and Goran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences, announce the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 6, 2020. Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP

STOCKHOLM—Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the darkest parts of the universe.

Briton Roger Penrose received half of this year’s prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,” the Nobel Committee said.