India's space observatory, AstroSat, has shed new light on the mysterious behavior of a distant black hole named GRS 1915+105 ...

AstroSat, India's space observatory, has discovered fresh information regarding the enigmatic behavior of a far-off black ...

Like a cosmic ghost, a black hole is invisible. Why? Because it traps light itself. Even photons can’t escape its gravity ...

Black holes are among the most mysterious giants of the universe. You can’t see them with the naked eye, but their powerful ...

They found a repeating pattern: a few hundred seconds of dim X-ray light, followed by a similar period of bright light.

During these high-brightness phases, the team observed rapid X-ray flickers about 70 times per second, which is known as Quasi-Periodic Oscillations QPOs.The research team uncovered that these rapid ...

Astrosat, India’s first Multi-wavelength Space Observatory was successfully launched by ISRO’s workhorse launch vehicle PSLV into a 650km orbit on September 28, 2015. Then began the process of ...

Astrosat has won a prize every year since 2012, but this year in association with engineering giant, Teledyne Brown, it has set contenders the challenge of an ‘end-to-end’ project.

An international team of astronomers have employed India's AstroSat spacecraft to observe a system of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5291. Results of the observational campaign, published April ...

Astrosat, launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Sept. 28, is designed to carry out simultaneous observations in the ultraviolet, optical, low and high-energy X-ray emission ...

India is making headway toward launching Astrosat, the country’s first satellite devoted to astronomy, which will look at the universe in X-ray, ultraviolet and visible light bands, a senior ...