The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over

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1. Story
2. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the prize to Roger Penrose for showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity, and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way. The division is itself the structure of the subject: one half for the theory that said such things must exist, one half for the decades of measurement that found one.
3. Knowledge
4. The singularity
5. Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
6. S2 - the star that measured the Galactic centre
7. Roger Penrose
8. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
9. Connections
10. Roger Penrose
11. Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
12. The singularity
13. S2 - the star that measured the Galactic centre
14. Penrose proves that collapse to a singularity is generic
15. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
16. M87* - the supermassive black hole in Messier 87
17. S2 - the star that measured the Galactic centre
18. A star is tracked through a complete close approach to the Galactic centre
19. The Event Horizon Telescope observes M87* and Sagittarius A*
20. S2 passes pericentre and its light is measurably redshifted
21. The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts
22. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
23. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy is imaged
24. Oppenheimer and Snyder compute continued gravitational contraction
25. Penrose proves that collapse to a singularity is generic
26. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
27. Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
28. A star is tracked through a complete close approach to the Galactic centre
29. S2 passes pericentre and its light is measurably redshifted
30. The orbit of S2 is shown to precess as general relativity predicts
31. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognises black holes twice over
32. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy is imaged
33. Evidence
34. Awards one half to Roger Penrose for showing black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity, and one half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the Galactic centre. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: not consulted in session; WebFetch to www.nobelprize.org was refused by the egress proxy. The award division and date are from recall and must be checked.