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.»
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/
Read more about this year’s prize
Popular Science Background: Black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret (pdf)
Scientific Background: Theoretical foundation for black holes and the supermassive compact object at the galactic centre (pdf)
