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How many black holes are there in universe? Researchers may have an answer
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Trieste [Italy], February 1 (ANI): One of the most relevant and pressing questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology is: "How many black holes are out there in the Universe?" A recent study by the Italian research institute, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), has s
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Researchers discover extraordinary black hole in neighbouring galaxy
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Utah [US], January 26 (ANI): Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centres of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode, making made it one of
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Feeding patterns of black holes reveal their size: Study
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Illinois [US], August 13 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the flickering in the brightness observed in actively feeding supermassive black holes is related to their mass. The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers have reported.
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PM CARES Fund is black hole of lies, corruption: Congress
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): Slamming the PM CARES Fund, Congress on Sunday raised questions regarding its legality and called it a "black hole of lies and corruption".
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Scientists detect gravitational waves for first time from black holes swal
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars. The team of researchers detected the two gravitational-wave events--from distances of more than 900 million light-years away--within a span of
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Pakistan's opposition alarmed over disappearance of key rights bills
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Pakistan's opposition in the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature has expressed alarm over its key human rights (HR) bills disappearing in a black hole to emerge in the form of government bills.
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Indigenously designed, developed spectrograph can locate faint light from
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Indian scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cos
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Study identifies where giant jets from black holes discharge their energy
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 16 (ANI): Scientists have perpetually disagreed about where the powerful jets from the black holes discharge their energy. A new study has revealed the primary way that the jets discharge this powerful motion energy is by converting it into extremely high-energy gam
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New study indicates supermassive black hole at center of Milky Way is low-
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): New research has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is not spinning much, providing more evidence that it is unlikely to have a jet.
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Three scientists share Nobel Physics Prize for black hole research
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], October 6 (ANI): The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was jointly awarded to three scientists for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole.
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Study suggests formula to help probe black holes: Dr Harsh Vardhan
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said that a new study by the scientists from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences has suggested a formula that can help probe black holes by assessing the spectrum emitted from the accreti
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Mammoth collision of 'impossible' black holes detected for first time
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], September 3 (ANI): The most massive black hole collision ever detected has been directly observed by the LIGO and VIRGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes scientists from The Australian National University (ANU).
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