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TMS Ep598: Deal reversals in IT, Indian OTT, India VIX, XPoSat
Will deal reversals continue for Indian IT in 2024? What will 2024 hold in store for OTTs? Is India VIX hinting at a downturn ahead? What is XPoSat? All answers here
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LIVE: Moscow to intensify its attacks against Ukraine, says Putin
Catch all the latest LIVE updates from across the globe here
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NASA's Chandra observatory helps dig out black holes previously buried
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has helped discover hundreds of black holes previously buried, which will help astronomers get a more accurate census of black holes in the universe
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Sonification of ripples: Hear the weird sounds of a black hole singing
The Chandra astronomers recently 'sonified' these ripples by speeding up the signals to 57 or 58 octaves above their original pitch, boosting their frequency quadrillions of times to make them audible
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Indian scientist helps trace clues of high-energy pulses from magnetars
Shashi Bhushan Pandey from ARIES worked with lead scientist Alberto Castro Tirado and other group members in this research
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International astronomers in Australia capture black hole eruption
Astronomers from Curtin University, as part of an international team, have produced the most comprehensive images of the nearest active black hole to earth.
NASA launches X-ray space telescope to unlock secrets of black hole
US space agency NASA on Thursday launched its new X-ray Mission to unlock the secrets of extreme cosmic objects.
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A black hole's lunch: Stellar spaghetti
On the upside, the energy released by your long fall and the crashing together of what used to be your atoms might produce a flash that can be seen across the universe
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Nobel Prize in physics goes to work on black holes: Here is the discovery
The fact that mathematics demonstrated that astrophysical black holes may exactly exist in nature is exactly what has energized the quest to search for them using astronomical techniques
Penrose, Genzel and Ghez win Nobel Physics Prize for black hole research
Penrose, professor at the University of Oxford, won half the prize for his work using mathematics to prove that black holes are a direct consequence of the general theory of relativity
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In pictures: Meet the 2020 Nobel prize winners
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
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Year in Review: Amazon fire to Baghdadi killing, top global events of 2019
Days before we enter the new year, 2020, Business Standard looks back at the top global events that made headlines and drew attention in 2019
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Imaging black hole like listening to song on broken piano: Katie Bouman
The scientist suggested that to get a complete image of the black hole, telescopes would have to be tiled across the globe
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The strangely magnificent technology used to capture the black hole on film
Black holes tend to be very massive but very small in volume
Einstein was right! Black hole image confirms general theory of relativity
When matter approaches a black hole's event horizon - the point at which not even light can escape - it forms an orbiting disk
Visual China Group draws flak for claiming copyright on black hole image
Just after the black hole image was released on Wednesday by astronomers, the website of Visual China Group carried the image with its logo, hinting that payment is required to use the image
First ever images of black hole: How this landmark achievement came about
Apart from the basic science insights EHT has already produced, the technologies and algorithms developed for this research are likely to find many other applications
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Meet 'Powehi', the first black hole captured using eight radio telescopes
The world's first image of a black hole revealed Wednesday was created using data from eight radio telescopes around the world
'Seeing the unseeable': Astronomers reveal first ever photo of black hole
Black holes, phenomenally dense and coming in various sizes, are extraordinarily difficult to observe by their very nature
The real deal: Astronomers unveil first photo of a black hole
Scientists have been puzzling over invisible "dark stars" since the 18th century, but never has one been spied by a telescope, much less photographed
