Roger Penrose, British mathematician and relativist who in the 1960s calculated many of the basic features of black holes. He notably proved, with Stephen Hawking, that all matter within a black hole collapses to a singularity with infinite density and z
He was Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge and his scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit ...