Scientists spot brightest record-breaking flare ever from a distant supermassive black holeScientists have captured the brightest flare ever recorded from a supermassive black hole, radiating as brilliantly as 10 trillion suns. Th...
04 Nov, 2025, 07.32 PM IST
The biggest explosion since the Big Bang; Star ripped apart by a Black Hole unleashes history’s most powerful and brightest known explosionAstronomers have spotted a new type of cosmic explosion. These are called Extreme Nuclear Transients or ENTs. These events occur when stars...
09 Jun, 2025, 07.55 AM IST
Supermassive black hole “ate” a star, are we next? Here’s what NASA found outIn a cosmic first, astronomers observed a supermassive black hole consuming a star. This happened outside the core of its host galaxy. The ...
13 May, 2025, 03.23 PM IST
NASA's James Webb Telescope captures Milky Way blackhole emitting fireworks-like displayScientists are not completely sure of the origin of the flares from the blackhole Sagittarius A*, which lies at the core of the Milky Way. ...
24 Feb, 2025, 06.49 PM IST
Why is NASA sending rockets straight into the Northern Lights? Here's the reason the space agency is citingNASA is launching rockets into the Northern Lights from Alaska to investigate why auroras have distinct movements such as flickering and pu...
24 Jan, 2025, 02.35 AM IST
ISRO's first solar mission Aditya-L1 to reach its destination on January 6: Chairman SomanathISRO's Aditya-L1 solar mission, launched on September 2, is nearing its final maneuver and is set to reach the L1 point on January 6, said ...
02 Jan, 2024, 12.14 PM IST
Indian astronomers detect huge optical flare in one of the oldest astronomical objectsIndian astronomers have reported one of the strongest flares from a feeding super massive black hole or blazar called BL Lacertae, analysis...
13 Feb, 2021, 05.34 PM IST
China successfully launches two satellites for gravitational wave detectionChina on Thursday successfully launched two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satelli...
10 Dec, 2020, 10.28 AM IST
Collapse of star captured for the first timeOn June 17, the ATLAS survey's twin telescopes in Hawaii found a spectacularly bright anomaly 200 million light years away in the Hercules ...
13 Jan, 2019, 12.57 PM IST
Assam scientist leads breakthrough research on black holesThe Hubble Space Telescope probed the quasars' light for information on the speed of the gas and whether the gas is moving toward or away f...
09 Apr, 2017, 05.22 PM IST
- Black hole devouring star for a decade detected
Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a giant black hole that ripped apart a star and then gorged on its remains for an unusua...
07 Feb, 2017, 01.50 PM IST
Massive black hole spotted binging on star for a decadeAs it travels inwards to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.
07 Feb, 2017, 01.07 PM IST
- 'Brightest supernova' result of giant black hole destroying star
New York, Dec 13 (IANS) An intense flare detected last year in a distant galaxy about four billion light years from Earth, considered to be...
13 Dec, 2016, 05.59 PM IST
- NASA's MMS creates new Guinness World Record
Washington, Nov 5 (IANS) NASA has said its Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS -- that is giving scientists new insight into Earths m...
05 Nov, 2016, 11.52 AM IST
First glimpse of black hole swallowing star, ejecting flare of matterScientists witnessed a black hole swallowing a star 300 million light years away and ejecting a flare of matter moving at nearly the speed ...
27 Nov, 2015, 02.47 PM IST
A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstaticOn June 15, one of NASA's satellites picked up a torrent of x-rays all coming from a single source: the black hole.
01 Jul, 2015, 12.55 PM IST
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