Gravitational Waves

Pac-Man-like behaviour could explain how massive, spinning black holes merge

Researchers are hoping to find signs of large, spinning black holes that can help in the hunt for gravitational waves.

CERN travelling science exhibit comes to India: Here's when and where you can catch it

While in India, the CERN exhibit will be bilingual — in English and Hindi — for the benefit of the general public.

Gravitational waves have been detected, scientists unsure where they're from

Scientists think it might have originated from a neutron star merger 500 million light-years from Earth.

Gravitational ripples from neutron star falling into black hole picked up by LIGO

Neutron stars collide & a black hole eats up a neutron star, all in a day's work for science.

How a siege in 18th-century British-occupied Calcutta gave us the term 'black hole'

While Einstein is credited with its discovery, the term 'black hole' has an interesting origin story of its own.

Quacks and pseudoscientists at ISC 2019 thrash Newton, Einstein and Abdul Kalam

Apparently, Kauravas were test tube babies & gravitational waves are actually 'Narendra Modi waves'.

New theory says build up of pain waves from dying animals can cause quakes: Geologists will laugh, but hypothesis holds weight

The theory published in a book says that pain waves originating from animals being slaughtered can lead to a similar destructive outcome such as an earthquake.

'Hydraulic jump' observed by Leonardo da Vinci finally finds an explanation

The study eliminates gravity waves, proposing capillary waves as the force causing hydraulic jumps

Gravitational waves could quantify the rate at which our universe is expanding

Emitted gravitational waves could provide independent and precise measurement distance

Particle physics seems to have ceded the glamour and excitement of new discoveries to astrophysics

Astrophysicists recently announced the discovery of an ancient collection of stars 9,700 light years away from Earth with an age of 13.2 billion years