Active Galactic Nucleus Current Affairs, GK & News

What is Data Sonification?

December 11, 2020

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared a sonification video of crab Nebula. The video shows Nebula being transformed into music based on its different colours. The blue shades were translated into bass and white shades into to wood winds. Nebula is an interstellar cloud of hydrogen, dust, Helium and ionized gases. What is ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Active Galactic Nucleus • Cassiopeia • Chandra Project • Data Sonification • Milky Way • NASA • nebula

Blazar Emission

April 21, 2020

Recent works by the researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics on blazars have provided insights into the processes happening close to black holes. Active Galactic Nucleus AGN or active galactic nucleus is the region at the centre of galaxies that that has above average luminosity that is not produced by the stars. The luminosity ..

Topics: Active Galactic Nucleus • Blazar • Indian Institute of Astrophys • Supermassive black hole