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Can we be a star-maker? Budget 2026’s outlay for telescopes is big deal— it can spur India to be a global astronomy leaderIndia embarks on a journey to expand its celestial horizons through investments in advanced telescopes and observatories. This strategic sh...- Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking: ‘Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of…’Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking encapsulates a life devoted to understanding the cosmos. It reminds humanity that even in the face of l...
- The Best Science Breakthroughs Have One Thing in Common: Tools That Measure Without FailingPrecise measurements, not just imagination, drive scientific breakthroughs. From Galileo's telescope revealing Jupiter's moons to LIGO dete...
- What is Quipu: Superstructure over 1.3 billion light-years long and holds almost 200000000000000000 solar massesScientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the largest structure ...
- The Hidden Cosmos: Exploring the intriguing world of dark galaxiesResearchers have recently discovered dark galaxies, which are galaxies devoid of visible stars but filled with hydrogen gas. These galaxies...
- McGill & IISc astronomers detect radio signal from atomic hydrogen in distant galaxy using GMRTThe astronomical distance over which such a signal has been picked up is the largest so far by a large margin. This is also the first confi...
- Astronomers use the upgraded GMRT to measure the gas mass of galaxies in the distant UniverseThe study resulted in a measurement of the average atomic gas content of star-forming galaxies located 4 billion light years away, when the...
- How supermassive black holes prevent star formationLondon, Jan 10 (IANS) Scientists have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent formation of stars in some smaller galaxies, in ...
- Massive black holes might lurk on edge of Milky WayNew York, Oct 31 (IANS) The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions, s...
- Is the Nobel for discovery of gravitational waves premature? (Comment: Special to IANS)On October 3, 2017, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three American physicists "for decisive contribution to Laser Interferometry...
- LIGO's detection of gravitational waves: Listening to the heavens became a reality (2016 in retrospect)Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) In 2016, science fiction and reality collided when LIGO opened up our sixth sense to understand the universe and set...
- Gravitational waves can tell how black holes are bornThe study combined simulations which aims to create a realistic simulation of the known universe with a model to calculate gravitational wa...
- Why Einstein's theory of gravity has become the most important task for physicists after a centuryIn the next few decades, finishing what Einstein began may turn out to be the most important event in science for a long time.
- How Albert Einstein engaged with India & why some Indian scientists are reimagining his notion of gravityEinstein was a great fan of Gandhi. However he critiqued Gandhi’s weapon of satyagraha as being practical only under “ideal conditions” and...
- Is universe being swallowed up by dark energy?Scientists have found hints that dark matter, cosmic scaffolding on which our universe is built, is being slowly erased, swallowed up by da...
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