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 inspiring.'
Physicists hope that a 'grand unified theory' will bring together strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions
After conducting a cosmic inventory of sorts to calculate and categorise stellar-remnant black holes, astronomers have determined that the Milky…
In a major breakthrough, astronomers including one of Indian origin have discovered two supermassive black holes orbiting each other 750…
Black hole merger is literally a match made in heaven. And the latest gravitational wave detection, from collision of two…
An international team of scientists has announced the third detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space and time —…
An international team of astronomers has observed that enormous quantities of space dust in galaxies could play an important role…
Supermassive black holes may be lurking at the centre of most ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, according to a new study which…
The last meal that the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way had was six million years ago, when it…
Astronomers have observed for the first time stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes…
