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Scientists may have solved 50-year mystery of the ‘Eye of Sauron,’ a galaxy billions of light-years away that seemed too slow to shine so brightFor over fifty years, the blazar PKS 1424+240 puzzled astronomers. Now, a fifteen-year study reveals its secrets. Researchers at the Max Pl...
T20I India vs NZ: A cakewalk for India2nd T20 KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer help India win by seven wickets after bowlers, led by Ravindra Jadeja, restrict New Zealand to 132/5
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 ...
Need to rethink over PSBs ownership if to ward frauds off in future: CEA Arvind SubramanianSubramanian said that going forward, India needs to have radical agenda for reform of banking if we want such frauds not to happen in futur...
- Observation of two neutron stars merger 'breakthrough of the year'
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) The first observations of a merger between two faraway neutron stars, a violent celestial event that generated ti...
- Gravitational waves from neutron stars' merger just the beginning
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first "ripples...
There is a treasure chest Modi government can unlock and use for investment: Foreign reservesGovt is sitting a nearly $400 bn reserves, with about $135 bn alone sitting in US banks earning next to nothing. These reserves are equal t...
LIGO detects gravitational waves for third timeThe finding confirms predictions made by the general theory of relativity which German scientist Albert Einstein formulated over 100 years ...
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...
- 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...
LIGO back online, set to detect more gravitational wavesResearchers have made enhancements to LIGO's lasers, electronics, and optics and have increased the observatory's sensitivity by 10 to 25 p...
Einstein's gravitational waves detected for the second timeA LIGO has been set up, to detect the gravitational waves. It is a system of two identical detectors carefully constructed to detect incred...
Gravitational waves detected for second timeThe scientists detected the gravitational waves- ripples through the fabric of the space-time continuum- using the twin LIGO interferometer...
India, US sign MoU for setting up LIGO observatory in IndiaIndia and the US today signed an MoU for establishing Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in India that will play si...
Ligo India: Big science project with big benefitsThe project of Ligo India will not just help a new generation of physicists, but it will also bring precision engineering to the Indian ind...
Gravitational wave detection may allow us to listen to starsWith the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, otherwise invisible phenomena, such as the black hole system captured by LIGO, will be acc...
- The Pakistan abyss
The assassination of PPP leader and Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is another marker of Pakistan's descent into a social and political black...