BLACK HOLES TOPIC: Science & Tech Context- The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, which has a mass 4 million times greater than the Sun, is observed. Concept- Observations showing a roughly dough-nut-shaped cloud of cosmic dust and gas shrouding a supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy […]

    Black Holes Subject – Science and Tech Context – Indian astrophysicists spot rare merger of three jumbo black holes. Concept – It refers to a point in space where the matter is so compressed as to create a gravity field from which even light cannot escape. The concept was theorized by Albert Einstein in […]

Subject: Science and tech Context: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for furthering the understanding of black holes, the most “enigmatic” objects in the universe. Concept: A black hole is […]