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Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) and Isro have discovered X-ray polarisation in an extragalactic black hole source

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) and the Indian Space Research...

Led by Professor Santabrata Das from IIT Guwahati and Dr Anuj Nandi from URSC, the team used a technique called X-ray polarimetry to make this discovery.

Researchers from IIT Guwahati and ISRO detect polarized emissions from the black hole in LMC X-3, offering unprecedented insights into high-energy phenomena beyond our galaxy.

A 16th-century Portuguese explorer has been branded a coloniser, a slaver and a murderer. Two satellite g...

Astronomers are questioning whether anyone should look up to Ferdinand Magellan. Two satellite galaxies in the Milky Way are named the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the...

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

The dwarf galaxies have been known about for more than 1,000 years after being spotted by indigenous peoples across South America, Australia, and Africa.

Astronomers call for large and small Magellanic Clouds to be renamed because their namesake allegedly “has a violent colonialist legacy.” They're talking about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He is said to have discovered the clouds during the world's first circumn

A coalition of over 50 astronomers is calling to rename the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.