Kip Thorne

Event Horizon Telescope, CV Vishveshwara, black holes, M87 black hole, Sagittarius A*, Georg Bernhard Riemann, Hermann Minkowski, Marcel Grossmann, Tullio Levi-Civita, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, David Hilbert, Albert Einstein, Karl Schwarzchild, Schwarzchild radius, general theory of relativity, special theory of relativity, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, gravitational physics, Arthur Eddington, Robert Oppenheimer, John Wheeler, white dwarf, Kip Thorne, Richard Feynman, theoretical physics, mathematical physics,

A Brief History of Black Holes

Ronak Gupta 17/04/2019

Black hole research started off as a purely theoretical...

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

First Light From the M87 Black Hole: What Are We Looking At?

Joseph Samuel 15/04/2019

How does a picture of a luminous ring around...

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

A 200-Year-Old Experiment Has Helped Us See a Black Hole’s Shadow

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/04/2019

With one fuzzy image, history has been made.

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-waves Observatory, LIGO India, gravitational waves, Albert Einstein, Kip Thorne, numerical relativity, Andrew Jackson, quantum physics, interference, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Sabine Hossenfelder, neutron stars, neutron star merger, multi-messenger astronomy, ASTROSAT, Niels Bohr Institute,

Danish Group’s Doubts That LIGO Discovered Gravitational Waves Resurface

The Wire Staff 04/11/2018

Though LIGO's response hasn't changed since the group started...

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Exclusive: Interview With Kip Thorne, One of the Winners of 2017 Physics Nobel

Karan Jani 03/10/2017

Kip Thorne speaks about the history and legacy of...

L-R: Kip Thorne (credit: LIGO Lab/Caltech), Rainer Weiss (credit: IAU, CC BY 4.0) and Barry Barish (source: YouTube)

Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to Trio That Pioneered Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/10/2017

But by giving the prize only to Kip Thorne,...

The VIRGO Observatory. Credit: The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0

Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Detected for Fourth Time – With Many Firsts

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/09/2017

We are getting a glimpse of the power of...