Black holes don’t always produce gamma-ray bursts
4 minutes read Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are bright flashes of the most powerful gamma-ray radiation lasting a few milliseconds to several seconds,
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Cosmos
Huge extragalactic structure found hiding behind the Milky Way
2 minutes read A group of scientists from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and Universidad
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The Ultimate Battle of Quantum Theories
7 minutes read The fatal flaw of the human species is as near as a main-sequence star is about to become a red
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Cosmic microwave background – The light from the past
5 minutes read Have you ever wondered about our existence? Why earth is at a precise distance from the sun? if it was
Read moreResearch in Astronomy/Astrophysics: A Conversation With Dr. Omar López Cruz, INAOE, Mexico
2 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 moreWebinar: Black Holes Everywhere– Dr. Omar López-Cruz
< 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?
Read moreWebinar: NAVIGATING WITH THE HELP OF ASTRONOMY IN THE MODERN ERA– Dr. Pragati Pradhan
< 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.
Read moreNobel Prize in Physics goes to three for showing that formation of black holes is predicted by relativity theory
< 1 minute read This morning the Karolinska Institute awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to two men and a woman—Roger Penrose, Reinhard
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Origin and fate of the universe
7 minutes read For centuries, the origin of the universe has been a great mystery for humans. Was there an exact beginning of the universe? Or was it here all the time? These questions remain hypothetical because no one knows exactly how our universe began. On the earth, we are provided with all the resources we need to survive, but still, we look up to the vast infinite universe. Why are we so concerned about outer space this much? Perhaps it’s our mere curiosity that drives us to dive into the mysterious birth of the cosmos. Scientists say that the universe began 14 billion thousand years ago with a massive explosion called the big bang. But, is that real? This article focuses on the basics of cosmology and some important studies regarding the big bang.
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Dark Matter – The Mystery Continues!
7 minutes read Our present understanding of the observable universe suggests that around 71% of the total mass-energy budget of the universe is due to Dark Energy, around 24% is the non-baryonic, non-relativistic Dark Matter (DM). And, the rest 4% is the normal matter (i.e. proton, neutron, electron, etc.) which constitutes galaxies, stars, asteroids, planets, and us. To explain the Dark Matter is one of the unsolved problems in physics. Understanding this can help us to unravel the mystery of the universe.
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