Black holes and the supermassive compact object at the Galactic center: multi-arts of thought and nature

TL;DR

This paper discusses the significance of black holes and the supermassive compact object at the Galactic center, highlighting recent Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and their implications for understanding gravity and cosmic structures.

Contribution

It provides a commentary linking the theoretical prediction of black holes with observational evidence of a supermassive object at the Galactic center.

Findings

Black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity.

Discovery of a supermassive compact object at the Galactic center.

Nobel Prize highlights the importance of these discoveries.

Abstract

This is an invited commentary on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 which was awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity," and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy."