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Multi-Institutional team, including IIT Guwahati researchers, decodes flic
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, in collaboration with UR Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO, and Haifa University, Israel, have uncovered a mysterious X-ray signal pattern emitted from a blackhole called GRS 1915+105, located nearly 28,000 light-years from Earth.
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Scientists describe black hole creation through pure gravity and without s
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying how singularities are resolved in the context of quantum gravity is one of the fundamental problems
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IIT Guwahati, multi-institutional team reveals new findings on black hole
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Studying black holes directly is challenging because nothing escapes from black holes to be detected or measured.
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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.
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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.
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"Very inspiring": Astrophysicist Karan Jani praises India for successful l
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Days after the successful launch of India's maiden X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) to study black holes and neutron stars, Karan Jani, a professor of Astrophysics at a US-based university, said on Tuesday that the country taking the lead in several frontiers of space science is 'very
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Amit Shah congratulates ISRO scientists on successful launch of XPoSat
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) [India], January 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated ISRO scientists on the successful launch of satellite XPoSat to study black holes and neutron stars, on the very first day of the New Year.
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According to research, black holes eat faster than previously thought
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is changing the way astrophysicists think about supermassive black holes' eating habits. Previously, physicists hypothesised that black holes ate slowly, but recent simulations show that black holes feed far faster than popular thinking predicts. T
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Research reveals black holes eat faster than previously expected
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is redefining how astrophysicists think about the eating habits of supermassive black holes.
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Satellite imagery highlights China’s detention facilities in Tibet: Report
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
China seems to have expanded the use of high-security detention centres as a tool of repression in Tibet.
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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
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Gravitational waves from colossal black holes use 'cosmic clocks': Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
You can't see or feel it, but everything around you is steadily shrinking and increasing, even your own body. According to a new study from the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Centre of the National Science Foundation, it's the strange, spacetime-warping effect of gravitational waves passing thro
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