His work on Black Holes
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose and two colleagues for their work on black holes.
Roger Penrose is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He received the award on 6 October, 2020 “for the discovery that black hole formation is a very strong prediction of the general theory of relativity.” more
Not even Albert Einstein, the father of general relativity, thought that black holes could actually exist. However, ten years after Einstein’s death, the British theorist Roger Penrose demonstrated that black holes can form and described their properties. At their heart, black holes hide a singularity, a boundary at which all the known laws of nature break down. more
Black holes are explained here.