NASA, along with the European Space Agency (ESA) and several ground-based observatories, has detected some of the most powerful space explosions ever recorded. These dramatic events happened when giant black holes tore apart massive stars. The explosions were so intense that they released more energy than 100 supernovae, which are already among the brightest events…
On Monday, after news broke of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, author Manu Joseph shared a striking memory. Narlikar, known for questioning the Big Bang theory, once told him, “Chai took longer.” It was the second-most interesting tea-related analogy about the universe since Russell’s teapot, which sought to shift the burden of…
From classrooms in Varanasi to reshaping ideas in cosmology, Jayant Narlikar‘s journey remains a shining example of scientific integrity and vision. Jayant Vishnu Narlikarwas born on July 19, 1938, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, into a deeply academic household. His father, Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar, was a prominent mathematician and physicist, and a professor at Banaras Hindu University…
Around 100 million years after the Big Bang, the universe might have been filled with something unexpected—water. A new study suggests that supernovas, the catastrophic explosions of massive stars, could have flooded the early universe with water, providing the key ingredient for life to form. These stellar explosions released vast amounts of heavy elements, including…
India’s military modernisation will continue in its typical slow, haphazard manner without any big bangs, with defence outlay getting a modest 9.5% hike over last fiscal’s budgetary estimates and 6.3% over the revised ones.The defence Budget was pegged at Rs 6.8 lakh crore ($79 billion), which works out to just 1.9% of the projected GDP…
NEW DELHI: India’s military modernization will continue in a slow, haphazard manner without any big bangs, with the defence outlay registering a modest 9.5% hike over the last fiscal’s budgetary estimates and 6.3% over the revised ones.The overall defence budget was pegged at Rs 6.8 lakh crore ($79 billion), which includes the huge pension allocation…
NEW DELHI: Swashbuckling Jos Buttler on Saturday became the first Englishman to reach the 150 sixes mark in the T20 Internationals. Buttler achieved the feat on his way to a quick 30-ball 45 in the second India vs England T20I at the Chepauk in Chennai.Buttler, who had 147 sixes to his name before the second…
The interim Bangladesh government has declined an invitation extended by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to celebrate its 150-year journey citing restrictions of “non-essential foreign travel on state expence”. The acting director of Bangladesh Meteorological Department Mominul Islam, on Friday confirmed the decision. Source link