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Quantum Computing Application Lab: GoI and Amazon Partnership

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in partnership with the Amazon Web Services is to establish Quantum Computing Applications Lab. The lab will identify quantum computing problems faced by Central and State Governments and also by the research institutions. The chosen proposals from these entities will get access to Amazon Web Services to use ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Black hole • budget 2020-21 • Genome India Project • national mission on quantum technology and applications • Quantum technology • satellite communication

Biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang

Scientists have detected the biggest explosion in the universe after the Big Bang. The explosion occurred from a supermassive black hole. Where did the explosion take place? The explosion took place in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster which is 390 million light years away from earth. The explosion is said to have released 5 times as ..

Topics: Big Bang • Black hole • Radio telescope

The team of Event Horizon Telescope wins 2020 ‘Oscars of Science’

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team  of 347 scientists  has won the 2020 ‘Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics’ for the first image of a super-massive black hole. The $3 million prize is also known as the ‘Oscars of Science’. The team produced the world’s first-ever image of a black hole circled by a flame-orange halo ..

Topics: Anton Zensus • Astronomy • Black hole • Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics • EHT • Event Horizon Telescope • Galaxies • M87 • Messier 87 • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Supermassive black hole

Astronomers at Max Planck Institute of Germany discover a new black hole named Holmberg 15A

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute of Germany have recently discovered a new black hole named Holmberg 15A that is clocking in at 40 billion times the mass of the Sun. The black hole is supergiant elliptical galaxy i.e. around 700 million light-years away from Earth and resides right at the centre of the Abell ..

Topics: Astronomy • Black hole • Black holes • Cetus • Elliptical galaxies • Extragalactic astronomy • Galaxies • Holmberg 15A • Outline of black holes • Physical cosmology • Supermassive black hole

Astronomers capture first ever image of Black Hole

Astronomers have captured the first-ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy known as ‘Messier 87’ (M87), through a network of 8 linked radio telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. The black hole in the centre of M87 has a mass of more than six billion solar ..

Topics: Astronomical imaging • Astronomy • Black hole • BlackHoleCam • Event Horizon Telescope • Galaxies • Katie Bouman • Messier 87 • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Sagittarius A*