Professor Vik Dhillon, an Indian-origin astrophysicist from the University of Sheffield in the UK, is part of a team that has brought humanity closer to understanding how the heaviest chemical elements are created in the universe using a high-end camera. A kilonova, resulting from the fusion of two dense neutron stars, holds significance as it’s thought to be the source …
Nearly a month after the Event Horizon Telescope snapped the first image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have found a unique object in the universe — a free-floating black hole. Gravitational microlensing is a process where astronomers observe the light from a star far behind the black hole, which is momentarily brightened …
Weeks after scientists confirmed that it was impossible for a black hole to decrease in size over time, signals from the collision of two neutron stars crashing into black holes have been detected for the first time. The most powerful gravitational waves are created when a star explodes asymmetrically, known as a supernova, or when two big stars orbit each …
