"Sadly, this award was too much delayed to allow Hawking to share the credit with Penrose," he said. Martin Rees, Britain's astronomer royal and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, said they were "the two individuals who have done more than anyone else since Einstein to deepen our knowledge of gravity". Penrose was one of Hawking's PhD examiners in 1966, and they collaborated on work into the origins of the universe. Penrose was jointly awarded the Nobel with two other physicists, in his case for 1964 research that showed Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. "We haven't the faintest idea how to describe the physics that goes on in the middle," he said. Understanding black holes was important to shedding light on the origins of matter and galaxies, the mathematician said, and understanding the "singularities" that lie at their heart was the "greatest puzzle" facing astrophysics today. It's a huge honour and I'm sure it will be a benefit to promoting ideas which I hope people will look at a little more seriously, ideas about cosmology," he said from his home in Oxford. Penrose, 89, told reporters that he had just come out of the shower when he received confirmation of the prize from the Nobel committee. LONDON - Nobel physics laureate Roger Penrose on Tuesday said his late colleague Stephen Hawking richly deserved a share of the prize after the British scientists conducted pioneering research into black holes.
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