What Happened:

• On Tuesday, scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel prize for physics for their discoveries about black holes.

• Penrose was awarded the prize "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity."

• Genzel and Ghez were awarded "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy."

• Said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "Penrose, Genzel and Ghez together showed us that black holes are awe-inspiring, mathematically sublime, and actually exist."

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