VP Dhankhar slammed the commercialisation of education, particularly the way coaching institutions invest heavily in ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The community of experts in astronomy works tirelessly in the shadows, with the aim of providing answers that, until now, have escaped human control. Many aspects are still unknown ...

Black holes have long captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike, with their immense gravity and enigmatic nature. For years, the mysteries surrounding these cosmic giants have ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

NASA astronomers have confirmed what may be the greatest discovery of the era. They found a significant reservoir of water that was hidden in the cosmos, and that surrounds a quasa ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a rare 'Cosmic Owl' structure, formed by two colliding ring galaxies, approximately 11 billion light-years away.