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Two mega objects collide in deep space. Signal hits Earth centuries later

Astronomers have detected a gravitational-wave signal from a collision between what is believed to be a neutron star and a compact object with a mass that intriguingly falls within the so-called "mass gap" between neutron stars and black holes. Dr. Jess McIver, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and Deputy Spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, emphasised the …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Mint Explainer: Why black holes are on India’s radar

Live Mint

If you watched Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie Interstellar, you would be familiar with the word black hole, even if you do not fully understand what it means. In December 2021, the US-based National Aeronautics Space Agency launched the imaging X-ray polarimetry explorer mission to explore the remnants of supernova explosions, the particle streams emitted by black holes and other cosmic …

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1 year ago

Scientists discover hidden population of stars that are the "bluest of blue"

Salon

Supernovae are rare events, yet they are critical to the inner workings of our universe and even our own biological makeup. “This happens naturally in a third of all massive stars through envelope stripping by a binary companion star.” This artist's impression shows how hot, brilliant and high-mass stars evolve. When asked to describe what these stars look like, Drout …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Science This Week | India joins Artemis Accords, the U.S. approves sale of lab-grown meat and more

The Hindu

From spotting a giant explosion that could have spelled the death of two neutron stars to finding out that lower oxygen content at high altitudes may increase lifespan, this week has been full of exciting discoveries. Astronomers spot a giant explosion caused by two neutron star colliding Astronomers have spotted a giant explosion in a far away galaxy that could …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Astronomers marvel at 'perfect explosion,' a spherical cosmic fireball

The Hindu

Astronomers have observed what might be the "perfect explosion," a colossal and utterly spherical blast triggered by the merger of two very dense stellar remnants called neutron stars shortly before the combined entity collapsed to form a black hole. "To be honest, we are really going back to the drawing board with this," Cosmic Dawn Center astrophysicist and study co-author …

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2 years, 6 months ago

This black hole is wandering aimlessly in space. It's so fast it can travel from Earth to Moon in 3 hrs

India Today

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 …

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3 years, 4 months ago

How to unravel hidden mysteries of the universe? This India born physicist has an ambitious plan

India Today

When Albert Einstein first proposed that there are ripples in the fabric of spacetime, the year was 1915 and the brilliant scientist had barely scratched the surface of a phenomenon that would revolutionise physics. About 100 years later, Einstein's successors discovered the first ripples -- known as gravitational waves -- arriving at the Earth from a cataclysmic event in the …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Newly-discovered white dwarf is most extreme, has greatest mass: Scientists

Hindustan Times

In their death throes, roughly 97% of all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered white dwarf is being hailed as the most "extreme" one of these on record, cramming a frightful amount of mass into a surprisingly small package. The rotating white dwarf is 35% …

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3 years, 5 months ago

'Extreme' white dwarf sets cosmic records for small size, huge mass

India Today

In their death throes, roughly 97% of all stars become a smoldering stellar zombie called a white dwarf, one of the densest objects in the cosmos. A newly discovered white dwarf is being hailed as the most "extreme" one of these on record, cramming a frightful amount of mass into a surprisingly small package. Scientists said on Wednesday this highly …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Gravitational waves reveal merger between black hole and mystery ‘mass gap’ object

CNN

CNN — A mysterious astronomical object merged with a black hole 780 million light-years away and created gravitational waves that could be detected on Earth. The object exists inside what scientists call the “mass gap,” a range between the heaviest known neutron star and the lightest known black hole. “Mergers of a mixed nature — black holes and neutron stars …

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Two mega objects collide in deep space. Signal hits Earth centuries later

Mint Explainer: Why black holes are on India’s radar

Scientists discover hidden population of stars that are the "bluest of blue"

Science This Week | India joins Artemis Accords, the U.S. approves sale of lab-grown meat and more

Astronomers marvel at 'perfect explosion,' a spherical cosmic fireball

This black hole is wandering aimlessly in space. It's so fast it can travel from Earth to Moon in 3 hrs

How to unravel hidden mysteries of the universe? This India born physicist has an ambitious plan

Newly-discovered white dwarf is most extreme, has greatest mass: Scientists

'Extreme' white dwarf sets cosmic records for small size, huge mass

Gravitational waves reveal merger between black hole and mystery ‘mass gap’ object