Among the discoveries made by previous satellites was that the universe is dotted with powerful gamma ray bursts lasting only a few seconds and never reappearing. Searching out these bursts, which have been linked in some cases to the implosions of...

International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking’s theory that black holes are not black after all. The researchers, led by Professor Ulf Leonhardt at the University of St Andrews and Dr...

U.S. astrophysicists say they have, for the first time, used a supercomputer to simulate the merger of three black holes.

It is really interesting that some people think the ‘dark matter’ is the modern equivalence to ether of the early 1900’s and could be proved non-existent. While I do not agree with that view, the only thing certain about modern Physics...

With chunks of ice the size of continents breaking off from Antarctica; the mass deaths of and disappearance of first frogs, then bees and now bats; the on-going proof of global warming; with leaders like Ahmadinejad from Iran threatening Israel...

NASA’s Swift satellite and Japan’s Suzaku X-ray observatory claimed to have discovered a new class of active galactic nuclei (AGN). AGN is distinguished from common galaxies as class, most luminous in the universe, such as quasars,...

A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut off from the rest of the universe, no matter and not even light can escape these strong clutches of gravity. Until now scientists from all over...

Do you know that galactic mergers keep a galaxy growing! A big galaxy is created with the merger of two galaxies along with several stars. But, a big question arises about the two super massive black holes that are lurking in the heart of...

It is known that galaxies collide over billions of years, to lead the super massive black holes at their centers merge into a single black hole. In the whole process, a tremendous impact kinetic energy converts to mass. This results in a tiny...

Galaxies are found to be crouching within itself, super-massive black holes, which are of the mass similar to millions of stars! Yes, stellar mass black holes can contain the mass of a few suns! But, what was still leaving the...