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2 minutes read A casual conversation with Dr. Pragati Pradhan (an astrophysicist) where she talks about her journey from teaching in Darjeeling to
Read more2 minutes read Dive into this wonderful conversation with Dr Omar Lopez Cruz where he describes how his curiosity about the stars led him to find answers to the questions he has been trying to find since his childhood when he lived in Mexico where there was no electricity. In this podcast, Dr Omar shares his life lessons which are extremely motivating and teaches us the way of life. He also shares some great career tips for aspiring researchers. If you are a science student, you will surely love this podcast.
Read more< 1 minute read Black holes (BHs) have become mainstream, since the detection of gravitational waves produced by the merger of binary BHs to the image of the shadow of the BH in M87. We have searched for the largest BH in the universe, the obvious place is the center of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCG). We propose that the BCG Holmberg 15A in the cluster Abell 85 could host the largest BH in the local universe, with a mass larger than 10^10 solar masses. Why can they attain larger masses? What is their origin?
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2 minutes read Kaushik Choudhury has graduated from IIT Roorkee with a masters’ degree in physics and earned a Ph.D. in interferometric observation of the shockwaves in air and liquids that are induced by laser ablation of metallic targets, jointly from IIT Bombay (India) and Monash University (Australia). He has got over 10 years of research experience in the domain of optics and optical instrumentation. He has worked across institutions during his PhD and post-doctoral research tenure. He is presently holding the position of CTO in Iota Design & Innovations Lab Pvt Ltd, a company that he has co-founded with the aim to make healthcare affordable.
Read more< 1 minute read Everyone wants to study in the world’s best universities. There are many good institutes in India and abroad. Some of
Read more< 1 minute read Throughout ancient history, humans have taken help of astronomy to navigate on Earth. I will present an overview of how humans are now designing to explore interplanetary space using X-ray pulsars (a.k.a. space GPS). I will also discuss case studies of some animals like dung-beetles use astronomy to navigate in their everyday life. I will touch upon the inspiration that astronomers obtain from structural designs of some animals (e.g., lobsters) to build X-ray spacecrafts with greater observing efficiency.
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