
As many as 2000 black holes kicked away from their homes are now living on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, used new computer simulations to look at how our galaxy grew through mergers with smaller galaxies. ...

05:55 PM, Mar 31, 2013

Almost a century after his death, Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan's cryptic deathbed theory has been proven correct and scientists say it could explain the behaviour of black holes. While on his death-bed, Ramanujan wrote a letter to his mentor, English mathematician GH Hardy in 1920, outlining several new mathematical functions never before heard of, along with a hunch about how they worked. ...

03:23 AM, Dec 31, 2012

Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan's cryptic deathbed theory-which he claimed was conceived in his dreams-has finally been proven correct, almost 100 years after he died. ...

10:12 PM, Dec 29, 2012

Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist who urged people to "be curious" in the Paralympics opening ceremony, has landed the richest prize in science for his work on how black holes emit radiation. ...

03:21 AM, Dec 12, 2012

Hundreds of gigantic black holes are leftover from the galaxy-building days. ...

11:56 AM, Apr 30, 2009