A toxic substance was sprayed by an unidentified person, causing the movie audience to cough, throat irritation and vomiting inside the cinema hall during the screening of the movie ‘Pushpa 2: The Rule’ at Gaiety Galaxy Theatre in Mumbai’s Bandra, claimed audience. The incident took place on Thursday (December 5) causing a chaos-like situation inside … Read more
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that supermassive black holes have the ability to deprive their host galaxies of the gas and dust needed for star formation.This groundbreaking discovery was made by an international team of researchers, co-led by the University of Cambridge, and marks a significant advancement in understanding the complex … Read more
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, located 9 billion light-years away, amid a cosmic feast as it devours one of the largest stars ever observed in a ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE). This rare phenomenon, designated AT2023vto, is marked by the black hole shredding a star roughly nine times the mass of our Sun and … Read more
The Milky Way is just a tiny speck within a universe teeming with countless galaxies. But estimating the total number of galaxies is a complex challenge. Even with our most advanced telescopes, we only observe a fraction of the universe.“The observable universe consists of regions where light has had time to reach us,” explained astrophysicist … Read more
Nasa’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has concluded its mission, marking the end of a journey spanned over a decade. The telescope, which began as the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), captured its final image of the Fornax constellation in Southern California, a snapshot that is more than just a beautiful view, according … Read more
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have imaged a planet that is, relatively speaking, in our galactic backyard — and that fresh data has led to new details about this massive “cold” Jupiter. The gas giant exoplanet has the unceremonious name of Epsilon Ind Ab. Epsilon (or “Eps”) is the fifth letter in the Greek … Read more
Discovered in 2011, Kepler-70b (also known as KOI-55) could easily be described as a circle of hell, according to Nasa. With temperatures soaring higher than the surface of the Sun, this planet endures a scorching average of around 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit (6,800 degrees Celsius). Once a gas giant the size of Jupiter, Kepler-70b was engulfed … Read more
With the discovery of more than 5,600 planets orbiting other stars and images from robots we have sent to all the planets in our solar system, it is becoming abundantly clear that Earth is unique among worlds. Almost all of the exoplanets scientists have discovered since the 1990s fall into four main types: gas giants like Jupiter … Read more
We’ve all heard of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri, but what’s all the fuss about this Bixby character? Yet another voice assistant that’s built into smartphones and tablets, Bixby is Samsung’s virtual assistant. If you own something with the ‘Galaxy’ sub-label, you can use Samsung’s digitized companion to do all kinds of things. Like its … Read more
NEW DELHI: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) Astronomers using the Nasa/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of LEDA 42160, a galaxy situated approximately 52 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf galaxy, among many others, navigates through the dense gas within the vast Virgo cluster of galaxies, experiencing … Read more
