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Inspired by Phillip Pullman’s first volume of the classic sci-fi trilogy, ‘His Dark Materials’, the science fiction movie ‘The Golden Compass’ released this December, talked of Parallel Universe or Multiverse. This Parallel Universe concept has been...
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For a while now scientists have thought a dense, massive object lurking at the center of our galaxy is likely a giant black hole, but they haven’t been able to...
made popular Sep 5 2008
Just how big can a black hole grow? Two astronomers reckon they have worked out the answer: colossal black holes with a mass of up to 50 billion suns could be lurking...
made popular Sep 5 2008
Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they...
made popular Sep 4 2008
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - world’s most powerful particle accelerator at CERN in Europe. Looking for ‘Higgs Boson’, an elementary partcile,...
made popular Sep 1 2008
Scientists working at NASA have spotted the smallest black hole ever discovered. Its mass is less that four times the mass of the Sun and has the size of a large city....
made popular Apr 2 2008
Every little attempt to save the earth can be put to rest by a single over-the-top scientific mistake. Apparently, we should not even bother to go green and go gung-ho...
made popular Apr 1 2008
They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the...
made popular Mar 29 2008
Black Holes are the most intriguing objects in space. The massive dead stars with intense gravitational force, gobbling every object that comes on its path. Detecting...
made popular Jan 11 2008
Black holes have baffled scientists for a long time. The dense mass of the dead star that has is dense enough to gobble huge planets and stars. Recently astronomers...
made popular Dec 18 2007
Professor Sam Braunstein of the University of New York’s Department of Computer Science and Dr. Arun Pati, of the Institute of Physics, Sainik School,...
made popular Feb 28 2007
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray observatory has discovered a light echo in Milky Way’s Black Hole, Sagittarius A*.
The light echo was produced when the X-Ray light...
made popular Jan 11 2007
Black holes have captured our imagination and become the source of many science fiction stories and scientists have always tried to solve one or the other mysteries...
made popular Dec 29 2006
One of the most commonly asked questions our scientists receive is about the existence of life elsewhere in our universe. But answering a straight forward YES or NO,...
made popular Dec 7 2006
Ground based gamma-ray telescopes are providing key observations to explore the non-thermal universe. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is observing mainly...
made popular Nov 28 2006
What turns on the super-bright galaxies called quasars? Astronomers have spotted what they think is evidence for their ignition switch. According to the researchers,...
made popular Mar 24 2006
The most distant explosion ever detected came from the edge of the visible universe. But, how was this explosion, the result of a massive star collapsing into a black...
made popular Mar 9 2006
“A deer with two sets of antlers” ‘ that is how Kurt Anderson likes to address what he discovered. It’s a small galaxy, whose name does not go...
made popular Feb 10 2006
Explore the ever happening world of multiple stars systems. Curious scientists are up with their gloves dissecting the outer world with new probes and discoveries. Here...
made popular Jan 10 2006
This is the third discovery. An international team of astronomers witnessed a third short gamma-ray burst, associated with a nearby elliptical galaxy. The detection of...
made popular Dec 16 2005
Scientists have discovered evidence of energetic plumes. These are particles that extend 300,000 light years into a massive cluster of galaxies. Thanks to NASA’s...
made popular Dec 2 2005
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