This is on Black holes, dark matter & dark energy
Yale University astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan studies Black holes, dark matter & dark energy. Recently in 2023 James Webb telescope (sensitive to infra-red spectrum) found a formation of black hole as outlined by a paper from Priyamvada. The galaxy in which we are has a massive black hole, much larger than the black holes due to collapse of a star as shown by S. Chandrasekhar sometime ago. Getting a massive black hole is another matter altogether and Priyamvada has shown how that is possible in her paper. She is the first Indian astrophysicist to have won the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, in 2025.
youtube.com/watch?v=hZWB-x6bdHs
Just as an aside: Only 4% of universe is the known things like visible matter, planets, stars, etc. Dark matter is the rest. Dark energy is the one that drives the expansion of the universe.
// My take on the Universe is much different than those that physics is trying to prove. It goes back to Brahman and maya, but that is an altogether different subject. I will leave it there.
Yale University astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan studies Black holes, dark matter & dark energy. Recently in 2023 James Webb telescope (sensitive to infra-red spectrum) found a formation of black hole as outlined by a paper from Priyamvada. The galaxy in which we are has a massive black hole, much larger than the black holes due to collapse of a star as shown by S. Chandrasekhar sometime ago. Getting a massive black hole is another matter altogether and Priyamvada has shown how that is possible in her paper. She is the first Indian astrophysicist to have won the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, in 2025.
youtube.com/watch?v=hZWB-x6bdHs
Just as an aside: Only 4% of universe is the known things like visible matter, planets, stars, etc. Dark matter is the rest. Dark energy is the one that drives the expansion of the universe.
// My take on the Universe is much different than those that physics is trying to prove. It goes back to Brahman and maya, but that is an altogether different subject. I will leave it there.
Statistics: Posted by bala — 18 Mar 2025 06:42