This is how astronomers have found universe’s missing ordinary matterAstronomers have used fast radio bursts (FRBs) to locate the universe’s missing ordinary matter. This matter had not been detected before b...
17 Jun, 2025, 01.02 AM IST
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
CWISE J1249+3621: A mysterious object hurtling at 1 million miles per hour leaves astronomers in shockTom Bickle, an astronomy student in Southampton, discovered a hypervelocity object moving at a million miles per hour. The object, possibly...
22 Aug, 2024, 12.45 PM IST
NASA's Chandra telescope reveals stunning details of Milky Way's super star clusterIn a groundbreaking study, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed new insights into Westerlund 1, the largest and closest 'super' st...
16 Jun, 2024, 01.13 PM IST
Halo season 2 release date, trailer and other detailsThe trailer of Halo season 2 has been launched. The second season will be released on Paramount+ in February this year. Here's everything t...
12 Jan, 2024, 02.24 AM IST
Is there more dark matter in the universe than visible matter? New theory of gravity provides cluesThere are many other failures of the standard cosmological model that researchers investigated in this review
08 Jul, 2022, 07.20 PM IST
Goan Jesuit finds Milky Way's long-lost siblingThis was recently discovered by a team of University of Michigan researchers led by Richard D’Souza from Pilerne.
29 Jul, 2018, 11.52 AM IST
- Thousands of black holes may be hiding in Milky Way's centre
New York, April 5 (IANS) A team of US astrophysicists have discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) -- the su...
05 Apr, 2018, 02.02 PM IST
Heart of Milky Way may host thousands of black holes: studyTo detect black hole binaries then, researchers realised that they would need to look for the fainter, but steadier X-rays emitted when the...
05 Apr, 2018, 11.54 AM IST
- Milky Way stars kicked out by invading galaxies spotted
London, Feb 28 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered evidence to show that some stars located in the Galactic halo sur...
28 Feb, 2018, 01.42 PM IST
- Black hole found producing fuel for star formation
New York, Feb 15 (IANS) In a surprising discovery, astronomers have observed a black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma ...
17 Feb, 2017, 03.16 AM IST
- Researchers find dark matter 'killing galaxies'
Sydney, Jan 17 (IANS) Australian astrophysicists have come a step closer to solving a galactic murder mystery on Tuesday when they studied ...
17 Jan, 2017, 11.59 AM IST
'Dark' Milky Way-sized galaxy discoveredThe galaxy, Dragonfly 44, is located in the nearby Coma constellation and had been overlooked until last year because of its unusual compos...
27 Aug, 2016, 01.49 PM IST
Supermassive black hole feeding on cold gas spottedThe clouds are travelling at speeds of up to 355 kilometres per second and may be only 150 light years away from its edge, almost certain t...
09 Jun, 2016, 12.54 PM IST
Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of starsThese star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...
10 Mar, 2016, 04.52 PM IST
Scientists develop new method to hunt dark matterAn international team of scientists has discovered a new method that may help in detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter.
09 Jan, 2016, 04.12 PM IST
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovers galaxy star birth mechanismAstronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have uncovered a process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue maki...
07 Aug, 2015, 01.23 PM IST