Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: IE Context: An international team of astrophysicists, has made a ground-breaking discovery using gravitational waves. They detected a merger between a neutron star and a mysterious object located in the “mass gap,” which is the range between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest black holes. Named GW230529, …
Source: TH Context: LIGO-India, a new gravitational-wave observatory, is set to put India on the research map and contribute to our understanding of the Universe. Currently, there are two LIGO setups in the US, and a third one will be built in the Hingoli district of Maharashtra, India. The facility’s construction is expected to …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) is an international collaborative sky surveying project. Scientists aim to study the polarisation in the light coming from millions of stars. Background: Polarization is a property of light that represents the direction that the light wave oscillates. How …
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