India’s renowned astrophysicist, science communicator, and Padma Vibhushan awardee Jayant Narlikar has been posthumously conferred the Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, the country’s highest scientific honour.
The discussions revolved around India's space exploration missions and the newly launched National Space Policy.
"Any light that goes into that black hole doesn't come out, so we shouldn't be able to see anything that's behind the black hole. The reason we can see that is because that black hole is warping space, bending light and twisting magnetic fields around itself,"
Controversially omitted from the Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues in 1974, astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has donated the entirety of a recent prize to boost diversity in science.
Mexican scientist Carlos Frenk Mora is one of the world's best known astronomers for his theories on dark matter and its role in the formation of galaxies.
