//American among 3 scientists sharing Nobel physics prize for cosmology finds

American among 3 scientists sharing Nobel physics prize for cosmology finds

Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Briton Roger Penrose will receive half of this year’s prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.”Goran K. Hansson, the academy’s secretary-general, said German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez will