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Astronomers have identified a black hole system in the Milky Way whose jet is oriented toward Earth, a configuration so unusual it has been likened to a “microblazar.” The discovery offers a new way to study how black holes accelerate particles to extreme energies and may help explain one of the galaxy’s long-standing high-energy mysteries.
Bengaluru-based spacetech startup GalaxEye has won Rs 63.84 crore in financial support under the Centre's Research, Development and Innovation Fund to build its next-generation multisensor satellite platform. The project, backed by the Technology Development Board, aims to push the company's indigenous OptoSAR technology from prototype stage to an operational system capable of sub-0.5-metre Earth observation imaging.
Kahlil Gibran's reflections on sorrow, longing, dreams and pain continue to resonate because they challenge the modern fixation on flawlessness. His words offer a reminder that imperfection is not a failure of life, but often the source of its deepest meaning.
The Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru is presenting two major exhibitions that connect India's past and present through wrestling and visual storytelling. Curated by Aayati Sengupta and Amruta Patil, the shows explore how community, discipline, memory and media continue to shape cultural expression.
Google is preparing to launch and test its AI chip in space in an early step toward Project Suncatcher, its effort to explore whether machine learning hardware can operate reliably in orbit. The company says the mission will help it study hardware survival, cooling, and satellite interconnectivity under the harsh conditions of low-Earth orbit, with a next milestone targeted for 2027.
A series of six-day skill development workshops in and around Araku Valley has brought tribal artisans together with master craftspersons from Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Chhattisgarh to refine traditional skills and explore new forms. The programme, jointly organised by tribal welfare institutions and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, also focused on documenting rare knowledge such as Buddu painting, now preserved by one surviving practitioner.
Two distinct artistic voices are on view at the MKF Museum of Art in an exhibition that turns inward to examine memory, identity and the small things that shape human life. On Things That Matter brings together works by Isha Valentine and Vidhya Venkatappa, whose different visual languages converge around a shared meditation on what people carry, remember and pass on.
Benedict Cumberbatch has described presenting the Open Planet documentary How to Live on Earth as a deeply energising experience that sharpened his understanding of the natural world. The actor said the film's humour, expert voices and three-part structure helped him avoid imitating Sir David Attenborough while still bringing authority and authenticity to the project.
The glaciers atop Papua's Sudirman Range, long revered as "eternal snow" despite sitting near the equator, are on the brink of disappearing entirely. Scientists say the loss is both a stark marker of global warming and the erasure of a culturally sacred landscape for Indigenous Papuans.
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