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Supermassive black hole, 6,00,000 times the mass of Sun, is heading towards the Milky Way. When is the collision likely to happen?Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...
14 Feb, 2025, 04.26 PM IST
Black hole near Earth? Here is what astronomers, researchers revealDescribed as 'once in a lifetime find', the largest stellar black hole has been discovered by cosmic researchers and scientists in close pr...
16 Apr, 2024, 10.30 PM IST
ESA’s Gaia mission discovers 2 closest-ever black holes to earth; Details hereScientists have discovered the closest black hole, BH1, to Earth in our cosmic backyard using the Gaia satellite. This discovery is signifi...
03 Apr, 2023, 09.24 PM IST
Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Bob Saget & Betty Davis: Remembering influential people who we lost in 2022Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022.
27 Dec, 2022, 09.57 AM IST
Chennai engineer's Chandrayaan-2 discovery boosts citizen science in IndiaThe crash site of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander was discovered thanks to the availability of data from the American space agency for common...
03 Dec, 2019, 04.43 PM IST
- Water-rich planets outside our solar system common: Study
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets which are between two to four times the size of Earth...
19 Aug, 2018, 03.47 PM IST
- ESA releases richest star map ever of Milky Way
Berlin, April 26 (IANS) The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the richest star catalogue to date, revealing previously unseen detail...
26 Apr, 2018, 11.22 AM IST
- New Horizons' next flyby target may have a moon
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) The next flyby target of NASA's New Horizons mission which is an icy world billion kilometres past Pluto might ha...
13 Dec, 2017, 12.02 PM IST
- Gaia probe pins down precise positions of over a billion stars
London, Sep 14 (IANS) On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy, European Space Agency's Gaia pro...
14 Sep, 2016, 06.52 PM IST
Navigational data produces image of the Milky WayGaia, the satellite built by the ESA, is on a mission to catalog a billion stars and create a massive 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy.
09 Jul, 2015, 11.44 AM IST
Leaves in the WindFor, the monsoon is not bound by hours and rules. Verily, as the proverb says, it never rains but pours (ati vrishti anavrishti)!
08 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST