ISRO-IIT-Guwahati team detects rapid X-ray flickers from distant black hole

Researchers from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, in collaboration with Haifa University, Israel, have uncovered a distinctive pattern of X-ray signals emitted by a black hole nearly 28,000 light-years away.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE GUWAHATI, 18 AUGUST

The discovery, made using India's multi-wavelength space observatory AstroSat has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and is being hailed as a breakthrough in black hole research.

The stellar-mass black hole, known as GRS 1915+105, has long intrigued astronomers because of its extreme variability and high-energy emissions.