Search For "astronomers"
Israeli-led researchers discover Milky Way's heaviest black hole
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Situated approximately 1,500 light-years away from Earth, the black hole was revealed through data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.
Read More
Israeli astronomers discover enigmatic red supermassive black hole veiled
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, Israeli astronomers identified an extraordinarily red supermassive black hole shrouded in cosmic dust, challenging current understandings of black hole growth and their relationship with host galaxies.
Read More
New information revealed about exoplanet's star, atmosphere
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The interesting TRAPPIST-1 exoplanetary system was initially found in 2016 amid speculation that it might one day be a home for mankind. Astronomers working under the direction of a team at the Université de Montréal have made significant progress in studying this system.
Read More
Very important day, say astronomers on Aditya-L1 solar mission
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The country's maiden solar mission -- Aditya-L1 is all set to be launched today at 11:50 am from the launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Read More
Super Blue Moon lights up sky
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Astronomers got a special treat on August 30 when a rare celestial event known as a Super Blue Moon became visible in the sky across the nation. A blue moon has nothing to do with the colour of the Moon. NASA defines it as the second full moon in a single month. "Once in a blue moon" occurs
Read More
Astronomers discover magnetic activity plays key role in exoplanet habitab
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Astronomers have discovered evidence that some stars have unusually powerful surface magnetic fields, a finding that contradicts existing conceptions of how stars grow.
Read More
IIT Roorkee researchers help in understanding humming of our universe obse
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
An International team of astronomers from India, Japan and Europe has recently published the results from monitoring nature's best clocks, pulsars using six of the World's most sensitive radio telescopes, including India's largest telescope, uGMRT. These results provide scintillating evidenc
Read More
Study detects most distant organic molecules using Webb telescope
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Astronomers discovered complex organic molecules in the most distant galaxy to date, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The study was published in 'Nature.'
Read More
Scientists witness planet being swallowed by sun-like star, says same will
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Scientists have observed a Sun-like star swallowing a planet for the first time, confirming a prediction that Earth will face the same fate in 5 billion years.
Read More
Terminator zones on distant planets could harbour life: Research
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
In a recent study, astronomers from the University of California, Irvine explain how the possibility of extraterrestrial life exists on far-off exoplanets within a special region known as the "terminator zone," which is a ring on planets that have one side that is always facing its star and
Read More
New discovery sheds light on very early supermassive black holes
Updated : 3 years ago IST
One of the most extreme galaxies known to exist in the very early Universe has a fast-expanding black hole, according to astronomers from the Universities of Texas and Arizona. New information about the creation of the first supermassive black holes is revealed by the discovery of the galaxy
Read More
Astronomers detect radio signal from atomic hydrogen in distant galaxy
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Using GMRT data, Arnab Chakraborty, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics and Trottier Space Institute of McGill University and Nirupam Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IISc have detected a radio signal from atomic hydrogen in a distant galaxy at redshift z=1
Read More