The main discoveries and milestones achieved in the field of astrophysics compete for the Nobel Prize in Physics; this discipline competes with other branches of physics. Some of the most recent awards presented to astrophysics include:
2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Canada) for the discovery of neutrino oscillation.
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne (United States) for detecting gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity; these indicate the collision of black holes in stellar masses.
2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for three scientists: Reinhard Genzel (Germany) and Andrea Ghez (United States) for proving the existence of black holes according to the theory of general relativity, and Roger Penrose (United Kingdom) for showing that black holes interfere with the orbits of nearby stars.