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From 'failed supernovae' to supermassive monsters, black holes reveal what happens when gravity overwhelms everything else.

Giants, ghosts, and gravity traps: The many lives of black holes

January 09, 2026 3:34 pm

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners, but they are among the universe’s most extreme objects - born from collapsing stars, lurking at galactic centres, and sometimes forming in near silence.

In general, a black hole is a region in Space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that neither matter nor light can ever escape.

Why merger of two black holes, 100 times bigger than the Sun, holds significance

July 18, 2025 12:51 pm

The detection of gravitational waves from this event has generated a lot of scientific interest. It has the potential to refine the current understanding of black hole formation, the evolution of stars, and, possibly, the current models of the universe itself.

New research shows Vaidya Radiation may enable Hawking radiation in black holes

November 06, 2024 11:02 am

In a statement issued on Tuesday by IUCAA, the researchers said that "Hawking radiation is a well-known concept in Astrophysics, but something critical is required for it to come out so that a Black Hole can always remain 'black'.

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First ‘black hole triple’ system discovered: What does it mean?

November 01, 2024 11:02 pm

The discovery of the system, located about 8,000 light years away from Earth (one light year is the distance light travels in a year, 9.5 trillion kilometre), has raised questions about how black holes are formed.

On May 20, the full-scale Engineering Development Unit Telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, still in its shipping frame, was moved within a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US.

NASA unveils new telescope to study gravitational waves in space

October 23, 2024 3:45 pm

The telescope was built as part of a joint mission with the European Space Agency (NSA) called Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

Detection of X-rays (purple) with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, overlaid on a visible light image of the host galaxy.

ISRO's AstroSat, NASA's space observatories capture dramatic eruptions from stellar wreckage

October 11, 2024 10:38 am

The orbiting star is now repeatedly crashing through the debris disk, about once every 48 hours.

Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli

'If we find evidence that black holes transform into white holes...it would mean that spacetime can also make quantum jumps': Carlo Rovelli

November 23, 2023 7:55 am

The Italian theoretical physicist on how white holes can upend our understanding of the structure of the universe, his new book that traces the ongoing research into their potential and why he is unimpressed with AI

Watch this space: Two galaxies walk into a bar and the oldest black hole ever discovered

November 13, 2023 8:12 am

Galactic bars are believed to form in spiral galaxies where stars rotate in an ordered fashion, like the Milky Way. In such a galaxy, a bar can form almost spontaneously because of instabilities in the spiral structure or the effect of gravity from a nearby galaxy.

The universe's hum and an opportunity to explore

July 07, 2023 10:07 pm

Whatever the ultimate origin of what is being called the “hum” of the universe by the press, it is clear that these nanohertz waves would, in future, allow us to explore the earliest universe