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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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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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Researchers find origin, maximum mass of black holes
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 2 (ANI): Through simulations of a dying star, a team of theoretical Physics researchers have found the evolutionary origin and the maximum mass of black holes which are discovered by the detection of gravitational waves.
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Hungriest of black holes among the most massive in the universe
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 1 (ANI): We now know just how massive the fastest-growing black hole in the universe actually is, as well as how much it eats, thanks to new research led by the Australian National University (ANU).
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Black holes are more like holograms, say scientists
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 4 (ANI): According to new research by SISSA, ICTP, and INFN, black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional surface able to reproduce a three-dimensional image.
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar
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Scientists shed light on growth of black holes
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], June 2 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), have shed light on how black holes grow over time by developing a new model to predict if growth by accretion or by mergers is dominant.
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Undergraduate student helps reveal how galaxies and black holes grow toget
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 21 (ANI): Over the past two decades, astronomers have concluded that most, if not all, galaxies host massive black holes at their centres and the masses of a black hole and its host galaxy are correlated. But how are the two connected?
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A signal like none before
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week
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