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Collaboration Director Shep Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics receives the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on behalf of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration at an awards ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, the United States, Nov. 3, 2019. The Breakthrough Prize Foundation held an awards ceremony here on Sunday to award a total of 21 million dollars worth of prizes to ten of the world's top scientists for their remarkable achievements in fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling)