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Egg-shaped galaxies may be aligned to the black holes at their hearts, astronomers find

Black holes don’t have many identifying features. Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones are found in the cores of galaxies. Black holes are millions of times smaller than galaxies, yet make jets that are pointed in the same direction as the entire galaxy. Bottom right: Event Horizon Telescope / ESO CC …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Priyamvada Natarajan | Universe’s cartographer

The Hindu

On April 17, TIME Magazine published the list of 100 most influential people in 2024 which featured a number of Indian artists, entrepreneurs and innovators. Endorsed by the Director of the Event Horizon Telescope and her contemporary, Sheperd S. Doeleman, the article highlights her most significant contribution — “In November, a novel approach developed years ago by Priyamvada Natarajan brought …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Astronomers find what may be the universe’s brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day

Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Batla House case: Delhi HC commutes death sentence of Ariz Khan to life term

Op India

The Delhi High Court lowered the Indian Mujahideen terrorist Ariz Khan’s death sentence to life imprisonment in the 2008 Batla House Encounter case on 12 October. A team of Delhi Police officers, some without weapons conducted a raid at Batla House on 19 September 2000 in order to apprehend Indian Mujahideen terrorists. He was convicted of killing Mohan Chand Sharma …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Scientists prove time moved 5 times slower for 1st billion years after Big Bang

Hindustan Times

Shattering previous notions and providing further confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity, a groundbreaking study has revealed time dilation effects in quasars. Through a new sample of 190 high-redshift quasars observed over 20 years, researchers were able to detect the time dilation effect in the variability of quasar light. This breakthrough in detecting time dilation effects in quasars marks a …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Pride flag flies at the Hall of Administration — a first for an L.A. County building

LA Times

Security guards Gregory Winfrey, left, and Benedicto Barnachea prepare to raise the Progress Pride Flag at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration building in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday. The event at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration kicked off LGBTQ+ Pride Month and marked the first time a Pride flag flew over a Los Angeles County building. “Here in …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Film Review: Little Richard biopic celebrates a rock pioneer

Associated Press

The king of rock ‘n’ roll didn’t die at Graceland in 1977. That’s the persuasive case made by Lisa Cortés’ documentary “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” an insightful biography of an unlikely hero who emerged in the buttoned-down Eisenhower era. Cortés argues that Little Richard created the template for the rock icon and she’s got the receipts, tracing his musical …

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1 year, 9 months ago

An Unexpected Discovery NASA Hubble ESA Gaia Spot Double Quasar That Existed Over 10 Billion Years Ago

ABP News

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers make an unexpected discovery: a double quasar in the distant universe. Therefore, the double quasar is from the early universe, and Hubble recently received light from the double quasar emitted 10.7 billion years ago. This is Hubble Space Telescope's photograph of the double quasar that existed over 10.7 billion years ago. Another challenge …

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1 year, 9 months ago

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Spots Celestial Body That Is Three Different Things All At Once

ABP News

Can you imagine a celestial object which is everything, in one place, all at once? It is so interesting that one can define it as three different things: sometimes as a Seyfert galaxy, sometimes as an active galactic nucleus, and sometimes as a quasar. According to NASA and ESA, the celestial body is a quasar, an active galactic nucleus, and …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Pride flag to fly on L.A. County buildings in June after unanimous supervisors vote

LA Times

Participants in the OC Pride Parade carry an oversized Progress Pride flag as the event begins along in Santa Ana in June 2022. A month after the Huntington Beach City Council voted to stop flying a rainbow flag from its City Hall, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has taken the opposite stance. The five-member board voted unanimously Tuesday …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Quasar Thakore Padamsee: Indian Theatre Is Evolving Towards Telling Personal Stories More Powerfully

News 18

Quasar Thakore Padamsee has always been revered as one of those mindful theatricians who were slated to bring about change in the art form and make space for oneself, even if artfully so amidst all the flamboyance and the frailties of the theatrical world. One of the founders of the popular theatre movement, Thespo, Quasar was able to make that …

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2 years, 2 months ago

'Cosmic Knot': James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Massive Galaxies Forming Around A Red Quasar. Know What It Means

ABP News

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made an astonishing discovery on cosmic objects from the early universe. The JWST, popularly called Webb, has found a cluster of massive galaxies in the process of forming around an extremely red quasar. Webb’s NIRSpec investigated the quasar Astronomers used Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph to investigate the movement of the gas, dust and stellar material …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Maarten Schmidt dies; Caltech astronomer changed our understanding of the cosmos

LA Times

Maarten Schmidt, the Dutch-born American astronomer whose discovery of quasars dramatically changed our understanding of the evolution of the cosmos and revealed the power and potency of the beasts that roam deep space, has died at his home in Fresno. Schmidt had only recently arrived at Caltech when he ascended in the observing cage of the great Palomar Mountain telescope …

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2 years, 3 months ago

New gene mutation that causes a neurological disorder discovered

Deccan Chronicle

UDUPI: A team of researchers, led by Dr. Anju Shukla of Kasturba Medical College- Manipal, and Dr. Quasar Padiath of the University of Pittsburgh has discovered a new gene mutation that causes hypomyelinating leukodystrophy, a type of neurological disorder. Discovering a new gene responsible for causing a disease is always exciting,” Dr. Anju Shukla Professor and Incharge Head Department of …

Gene Myelin Disorder

2 years, 6 months ago

Explained | What is the Gaia space mission and what has it revealed about the Milky Way?

The Hindu

The story so far: The third dataset released by the European Space Agency’s star-mapping Gaia probe, covering almost 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, has revealed an unexpected phenomena called ‘starquakes’, which are similar to earthquake-like movements but on the surface of stars. The data has also revealed the largest chemical map of the entire Milky Way, showing …

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2 years, 6 months ago

QTP’s new play connects the planet and parenthood

Live Mint

In 2014, Quasar Thakore-Padamsee and Toral Shah were doing a reading of Duncan Macmillan’s critically-acclaimed play Lungs in their office. Although he had directed another play—Every Brilliant Thing— adapted from Macmillan’s text, Thakore-Padamsee was sure that he wanted to direct Lungs as well. The two characters, M and W, played by Prashant Prakash and Dilnaz Irani respectively in this play, …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Elon Musk Shares 'I Support The Current Thing' Meme. Here's What It Means

ABP News

New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is famous for his bizarre tweets, shared a meme on Twitter Monday, apparently taking a dig at “woke people”. Meme Depicts Different Flags Used By LGBTQ Community Over the years, the flags used by the LGBTQ community have undergone several changes, and the meme shared by Musk depicts some of these …

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2 years, 10 months ago

EV chargers for V2G and V2H to arrive in Australia within weeks, after long delays

ABC

A new kind of charger that allows an electric vehicle to be used as a giant home battery is close to going on sale in Australia, with the first commercial shipment to arrive within weeks. Unlike standard one-way EV chargers, bidirectional chargers can also discharge energy from an EV, which means they can be used to power a home and …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Marvel fans celebrate ‘amazing’ casting of Will Poulter as Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy 3

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Marvel fans are excited by the news of actor Will Poulter …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Excerpt: Regrets, None by Dolly Thakore

Hindustan Times

In July 1979, Rani Dube passed through Bombay. Mrs Gandhi had given the project her blessing and introduced the two of them to the National Film Development Corporation of India … During the filming of Gandhi, with Simon Kaye, Michael Stewart, Rani Dubey, Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Saeed Jaffrey, Richard Attenborough and Billy WIlliams in November 1980 375pp, ₹599; HarperCollins …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Nasa will use quasar gas to unlock one of the oldest secrets in the universe

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope will use the brightest supermassive black holes in …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Who Designed the 'Rainbow Flag' and How Did it Come to Represent Queer Pride?

News 18

June is celebrated as ‘Pride Month’ all over the world. “We’re thrilled to announce that MoMA has acquired the iconic Rainbow Flag into its design collection, where it joins similarly universal symbols such as the @ symbol, the Creative Commons logo, and the recycling symbol. Quasar’s Progress Pride Flag adds five arrow-shaped lines to the six-coloured Rainbow Flag, which is …

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3 years, 9 months ago

An ode to the pre-pandemic green room

Live Mint

World Theatre Day took place on 27 March, bringing to life the magic of “make-believe” for the small audiences mandated by pandemic guidelines for performance venues. Bridging the real and imagined worlds, theatre green rooms have always been much more than ordinary “dressing rooms”. Characteristic of green room rituals before a show was the “huddle”, with the production cast and …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Most distant cosmic jet discovered 13 billion light-years away

CNN

CNN — It has taken 13 billion years for the light from the powerful jets of a distant object to reach us. Clues of the early universe “The black hole is eating up matter very rapidly, growing in mass at one of the highest rates ever observed,” said study author Chiara Mazzucchelli, astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, …

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Egg-shaped galaxies may be aligned to the black holes at their hearts, astronomers find

Priyamvada Natarajan | Universe’s cartographer

Astronomers find what may be the universe’s brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day

Batla House case: Delhi HC commutes death sentence of Ariz Khan to life term

Scientists prove time moved 5 times slower for 1st billion years after Big Bang

Pride flag flies at the Hall of Administration — a first for an L.A. County building

Film Review: Little Richard biopic celebrates a rock pioneer

An Unexpected Discovery NASA Hubble ESA Gaia Spot Double Quasar That Existed Over 10 Billion Years Ago

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Spots Celestial Body That Is Three Different Things All At Once

Pride flag to fly on L.A. County buildings in June after unanimous supervisors vote

Quasar Thakore Padamsee: Indian Theatre Is Evolving Towards Telling Personal Stories More Powerfully

'Cosmic Knot': James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Massive Galaxies Forming Around A Red Quasar. Know What It Means

Maarten Schmidt dies; Caltech astronomer changed our understanding of the cosmos

New gene mutation that causes a neurological disorder discovered

Explained | What is the Gaia space mission and what has it revealed about the Milky Way?

QTP’s new play connects the planet and parenthood

Elon Musk Shares 'I Support The Current Thing' Meme. Here's What It Means

EV chargers for V2G and V2H to arrive in Australia within weeks, after long delays

Marvel fans celebrate ‘amazing’ casting of Will Poulter as Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Excerpt: Regrets, None by Dolly Thakore

Nasa will use quasar gas to unlock one of the oldest secrets in the universe

Who Designed the 'Rainbow Flag' and How Did it Come to Represent Queer Pride?

An ode to the pre-pandemic green room

Most distant cosmic jet discovered 13 billion light-years away