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  Want to say goodbye to blackheads? Try these 5 homemade face scrubs

  Beauty | February 02, 2024 18:35 IST

  Fed up with blackheads, especially in your T-zone? Do not worry. While there is a plethora of in-salon services and commercially available nose strips made to remove blackheads, you can get rid of them naturally. Here are 5 effective homemade face scrubs.

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  NASA shares photo of 2 supermassive black holes. See pic

  Science | December 15, 2020 23:00 IST

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared images of two supermassive black holes in Galaxy NGC 6240 which are in the process of merging.

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  Earth inching closer to supermassive black hole at 7 km per second, reveals study

  Science | December 01, 2020 16:41 IST

  Earth is inching closer to a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy at 7 km per second, a study has found out. According to a map issued by Japanese radio astronomy project VERA, earth in the past 35 years has travelled some 1,900 light years and is now sitting at a distance of 25,800 light years from the black hole.

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  Remembering Stephen Hawking: Must read books by scientist who simplified theory of black holes

  World | January 09, 2020 11:28 IST

  A scientist and an author, Stephen Hawking achieved various milestones in the field of scientific research and unearthed theories regarding black holes in the universe and other discoveries. A look at famous books he authored & selected academic work for science enthusiats.

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  Supermassive blackholes may stunt galaxy growth

  Science | October 12, 2019 15:51 IST

  Researchers have found that the strong cosmic winds emerging from supermassive black holes at the centre of dwarf galaxies impact the expansion and evolution of these galaxies by suppressing star formation -- an advance that sheds more light on how galaxies grow and evolve.

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  Israel plans to launch satellite to record black holes

  Science | August 12, 2019 23:51 IST

  Israel plans to launch into space in 2023 an "innovative" scientific satellite with a unique space telescope that will investigate and record cosmic explosions and black holes, the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in Israel reported on Monday.

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  Black Hole Memes: Social media army turns first image into hilarious memes

  Trending | April 13, 2019 19:57 IST

  It's funny how the efforts of hundreds of astronomers have been converted into memes.

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  Astronomers discover 83 super-massive black holes

  Science | March 18, 2019 17:40 IST

  The study also provides new insight into the effect of black holes on the physical state of gas in the early universe in its first billion years. 

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  Astronomers find signs of double supermassive black holes

  Science | October 26, 2018 15:18 IST

  The fact that the most powerful jets are associated with binary black holes could have important consequences for the formation of stars in galaxies.

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  Scientists spot evidence of rare black hole in space

  Science | June 20, 2018 10:58 IST

  Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive, but the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) was never proven.

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  Bigger black holes turn off star formation in galaxies earlier

  Science | January 04, 2018 16:53 IST

  Young galaxies blaze with bright new stars forming at a rapid rate, but star formation eventually shuts down as a galaxy evolves.

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  Edges of spiral galaxies like Milky Way could house massive black holes, finds study

  Science | November 01, 2017 13:31 IST

  A study led by Sukanya Chakrabarti has found that the outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions.

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  Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couples

  Science | October 04, 2017 23:54 IST

  Astronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing millions of times the mass of the Sun, in the centres of galaxies

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  Astronomers discover five supermassive black hole pairs

  Science | October 04, 2017 14:03 IST

  These black hole couples formed when two galaxies merged with each other after collision, forcing their supermassive black holes close together.

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  Scientists detect fourth gravitational wave from black hole collision 1.8 billion light-years away

  Science | September 28, 2017 11:45 IST

  Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have detected a fourth gravitational wave signal coming from the merger of two black holes

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  Two Indian scientists discover closest-ever pair of supermassive black holes

  Science | September 21, 2017 22:18 IST

  Two Pune-based scientists are involved in the discovery of two closest-ever black holes, in a super-massive binary black hole system, which is about 400 million light years from Earth

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  See Pics! In a first, NASA's WISE telescope captures supermassive black holes eating up stars

  World | September 19, 2016 12:29 IST

  Gigantic black holes have been spotted eating up everything including the stars present near them – something they are quite famous for. Black holes have a tremendous gravitational pull and obtain thermal energy equal to

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  Black holes may be ‘back door’ to another world, claims study

  World | August 06, 2016 10:04 IST

  While physicists have been trying to unravel the mysteries of black holes for decades, a new study suggests that they may actually be ‘back doors’ to other parts of the universe.

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  Outcast black holes living on edge of Milky Way

  World | March 31, 2013 17:21 IST

  London, Mar 31: As many as 2,000 black holes kicked away from their homes are now living on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.Researchers from the University of California,