Special Colloquium

Black holes: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

Robert Brandenberger & Daryl Haggard

Department of Physics & McGill Space Institute
McGill University

(From nobelprize.org): The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.”

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h7EmuXeaLA