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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.

Biggest black-hole collision ever recorded found using LIGO gravitational wave data

Luckily for us, the dramatic collision of two black holes took place nine billion light-years away.

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

India should set up astronomical observatory in Antarctica says director of the IUCAA

The absence of water vapour and thin atmosphere of Antarctica make it an ideal place for astronomy, especially when observing IR and microwave radiations.

Scientists detect gravitational waves from a collision of the lightest binary black hole pair observed by LIGO so far

The waves were produced by the merger of black holes seven and 12 times the mass of the Sun.

Gravitational waves emitted from supermassive black hole binary could be detected in 10 years

It has been observed that the bigger a galaxy, the size of the black hole increases. Thus the merger of the blackholes happens for a short time.

Detection of colliding neutron stars is just the beginning of a new era of gravitational wave astronomy

The new observations confirm that at least some short gamma-ray bursts are generated by the merging of neutron stars.

More than 40 scientists from 13 Indian institutions played a role in the observation of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

The Indian scientists were part of the team of 1,200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide.