Indian telescope observes cosmic violence as dying star comes close to a black hole

Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) is India’s first fully robotic optical research telescope developed jointly by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The primary research focus of this telescope is time-domain astronomy: the study of…

Close-up of a black hole reveals never-before-seen ring behind it

It was in 2019 when astronomers came together to make the world’s most powerful telescope that was spread across the planet. What the Event Horizon Telescope did was capture the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy. While the data processing revealed an incredible…