In a galaxy far, far away... the story of black holes in pics

Here is a primer on black holes, about which Albert Einstein had predicted and which we can now observe in real terms

This is how hot stars evolve in Globular Clusters in the Milky Way

AstroSat unravels the nature of the special kinds of stars

Records of historical supernova found in Karnataka

Criticism of western scholars that great celestial events of supernovae had gone unnoticed in India is totally unfounded

13.5 billion-year-old star discovered by scientists

The star is around 9 billion years older than the sun and was immediately formed after the Big Bang

The week that was

Round-up of science news from the week that includes a possible vaccine for dengue, cosmic rays in the Milky Way and other news stories

Milky Way’s supermassive black hole exploded 3.5 million years ago: Study

The blast took place 63 million years after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs; and when our earliest ancestors — the Australopithecines &…

Milky Way to collide with another galaxy

UK researchers find that this will happen in the next two billion years and will send our solar system hurtling into space

A wake-up call to reclaim the forgotten darkness in our lives

Light pollution is playing havoc with age-old rhythms of life—of sleep, procreation, metabolism, migration and foraging

Smallest-known galaxy containing a ‘supermassive’ black hole found

The black hole, according to the international space agency, is five times the mass of the one at the center of Milky Way galaxy

Galaxy caught in self-destructive mode

Finding throws new light on the evolution and ageing of galaxies