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Internet users took to social media slamming VCG for monetising a photo intended for free distribution among people.

Black Hole image for sale!

This in turn lead to government intervention and VCG was ordered to end its illegal, rule-breaking practices.

15 April 2019 12:12 AM IST

The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth. (Photo: AP)

Black hole image released in an astrophysics breakthrough

Black holes, phenomenally dense celestial entities, are extraordinarily difficult to observe despite their great mass.

13 April 2019 9:42 AM IST

Astronomers say giving it a Hawaiian name was justified because the project included two telescopes in Hawaii. (Photo:AP)

Hawaii university professor names black hole 'Powehi'

A language professor has given a Hawaiian name Powehi to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark...

12 April 2019 10:03 AM IST

The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. (Image: tweeted by @ESO)

Astronomers unveil first ever image of black hole

This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth.

10 April 2019 7:29 PM IST

The other candidate is a monster black hole -- 1,500 times more massive even than Sag A* -- in an elliptical galaxy known as M87. (Representative image | Pixabay)

The first picture of a black hole to be revealed soon

It's a lot farther from Earth, but distance and size balance out, making it roughly as easy (or difficult) to pinpoint.

6 April 2019 10:28 AM IST

This might seem like a small detail but it directly affects how fast black holes spin and, consequently, what effect they have on the galaxies that surround them. (Photo: AFP)

40 years black hole mystery solved

'Best ever' simulation solves 40-year black hole mystery.

6 Jun 2019 9:54 AM IST

This particular black hole is 130 million light-years from Earth is not in a good shape.

Watch: Supermassive black hole that should not be there

A disk of material surrounding the black hole has been discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.

12 July 2019 2:56 PM IST

The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth. (Photo: AP)

A black hole rips apart an unfortunate star

The star, roughly the same size as our sun, was eventually sucked into oblivion in a rare cosmic occurrence.

30 Sept 2019 7:38 AM IST

Stephen Hawking passes away at 76 (Photo: AFP)

Stephen Hawking's voice beamed into space during London burial

Ashes of the theoretical physicist were interred by the graves of fellow science greats Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

15 Jun 2018 8:32 PM IST

The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, including the National Science Foundations Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), in a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299. (Photo Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScI)

Astronomers spot supermassive blackhole destroying a star

At the core of one of the galaxies, a black hole 20 million times more massive than the Sun shredded a star more than...

17 Jun 2018 6:41 PM IST

The other candidate is a monster black hole -- 1,500 times more massive even than Sag A* -- in an elliptical galaxy known as M87. (Representative image | Pixabay)

Indian astronomers detect huge optical flare in one of the oldest...

The data collected from the flare observed will help calculation of the black hole mass, size of emission region, and...

13 Feb 2021 6:54 PM IST

The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. (Photo: AP)

Milky Way's black hole spews out cosmic 'spitballs'

Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole whose powerful gravity rips the star apart

12 Jan 2017 9:29 PM IST