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Astronomers can’t agree on how fast universe is expanding; new approaches aiming to break impasse

Measurements of the present-day expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant or H₀ (pronounced H-naught), have improved considerably since those early days. However, a new debate now grips the astronomy community: two independent measurements of H₀, which should agree, give different results.

21 September 2024, 10:23 IST

Astronomers can’t agree on how fast universe is expanding; new approaches aiming to break impasse

Astronomers can’t agree on how fast universe is expanding; new approaches aiming to break impasse

Astronomers can’t agree on how fast universe is expanding; new approaches aiming to break impasse

21 September 2024, 10:23 IST

Astronomers just detected biggest black hole jets ever seen, names them Porphyrion

Porphyrion can tell us more about the great ecosystem of matter flowing inside and outside of galaxies.

20 September 2024, 09:14 IST

Astronomers just detected biggest black hole jets ever seen, names them Porphyrion

Astronomers just detected biggest black hole jets ever seen, names them Porphyrion

Astronomers just detected biggest black hole jets ever seen, names them Porphyrion

20 September 2024, 09:14 IST

Alarmed by climate change, astronomers train their sights on Earth

Astronomers are raising awareness in the classroom, incorporating Earth's climate into their research, or have left science and become full-time activists.

14 May 2024, 09:55 IST

Alarmed by climate change, astronomers train their sights on Earth

Alarmed by climate change, astronomers train their sights on Earth

Alarmed by climate change, astronomers train their sights on Earth

14 May 2024, 09:55 IST

Decoding the hum of the universe

The wave was generated when two stellar-mass blackholes (blackholes tens of times heavier than our sun) merged.

11 August 2023, 22:21 IST

Decoding the hum of the universe

Decoding the hum of the universe

Decoding the hum of the universe

11 August 2023, 22:21 IST

Astronomers marvel at 'perfectly spherical explosion'

The existence of kilonova explosions was proposed in 1974 and confirmed in 2013

15 February 2023, 17:20 IST

Astronomers marvel at 'perfect explosion,' a spherical cosmic fireball

Astronomers marvel at 'perfect explosion,' a spherical cosmic fireball

Astronomers marvel at 'perfectly spherical explosion'

15 February 2023, 17:20 IST

Ear to black holes, scientists hunt gravitational waves

Once detected, such low frequency gravitational waves would provide scientists with a novel look of the universe

26 November 2022, 07:09 IST

Astronomers hunt gravitational waves with ear to black hole symphony

Astronomers hunt gravitational waves with ear to black hole symphony

Ear to black holes, scientists hunt gravitational waves

26 November 2022, 07:09 IST

Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole

Lead researcher Dr Christopher Onken from ANU described the black hole as a 'very large, unexpected needle in the haystack'

19 June 2022, 04:18 IST

Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole of past 9 bn years

Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole of past 9 bn years

Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole

19 June 2022, 04:18 IST

Astronomers claim to disprove findings on first stars

The RRI’s SARAS 3 radio telescope is the first device in the world to reach the required sensitivity and conclusively refute the earlier findings

28 February 2022, 20:28 IST

Bengaluru astronomers claim to disprove findings on first stars formed after Big Bang

Bengaluru astronomers claim to disprove findings on first stars formed after Big Bang

Astronomers claim to disprove findings on first stars

28 February 2022, 20:28 IST

Astronomers may have spotted 1st 'invisible' black hole

There are many rogue black holes that are drifting through space without interacting with anything, however – making them hard to detect

08 February 2022, 06:28 IST

Astronomers think they've just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time

Astronomers think they've just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time

Astronomers may have spotted 1st 'invisible' black hole

08 February 2022, 06:28 IST

B'luru astronomers develop method to study exoplanets

The team’s focus was to explore exoplanets that are similar to the Earth and therefore try to identify which could be habitable

13 November 2021, 06:47 IST

Bengaluru astronomers develop method to better study exoplanets

Bengaluru astronomers develop method to better study exoplanets

B'luru astronomers develop method to study exoplanets

13 November 2021, 06:47 IST