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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Heaviest Black-Hole Merger Yet

Abhirup Ghosh 02/09/2020

Astronomers have yet to find black holes between 100-...

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A Black Hole Paradox Where Relativity and Quantum Physics Meet

Nirmalya Kajuri 29/08/2020

We have made great advances in physics in the...

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In the Latest Gravitational Wave Signal, a New Music Meets an Old Prediction

P. Ajith, K.G. Arun and Anand Sengupta 29/04/2020

The collision happened a little over two billion lightyears...

fast radio bursts, black holes, neutron stars, neutron star merger, Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, blitzar, cosmic candles, Abraham Loeb, Manasvi Lingam, Global Positioning System, NAVIC,

We’re Finally Getting to Know the Secrets of Neutron Stars as Well

Prakash Chandra 22/04/2020

Are neutron stars – the incredibly dense, burnt-out cores...

Big Bang, Big Chill, Big Freeze, Big Rip, quantum tunneling, cosmic microwave background radiation, metric expansion of the universe, cosmic inflation, redshift, Doppler effect, metastable valley, Hubble constant, cosmological constant, Quintessence, dark energy, gravity, general theory of relativity,

Why Won’t the Gravity of Galaxies Keep Our Universe From Expanding?

Ronak Gupta 18/11/2019

About five billion years ago, the universe switched gears...

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A Hundred Years Later, it’s Still All Relative

Ghanashyam Date 12/09/2019

It's one hundred years since Albert Einstein readied his...

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How Astronomers Use Ginormous Natural Lenses to Study Distant Space Explosions

Suhail Dhawan 10/08/2019

Light bends around massive objects in space, so astronomers...