India Launches Space Mission To Study Black Holes: At the beginning of the new year, the Indian space agency 'ISRO' launched its rocket, which aims to study black holes.
According to the report of the British Broadcasting Corporation, this space mission was launched today (January 1) from the Sriharikota Spaceport at 9:10 a.m. local time.
This is the second mission into space to study black holes, with the first being launched by NASA in 2021.
The space agency ISRO says it wants to help scientists increase their knowledge and understanding of black holes.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairperson S. Somanath said after the launch that he is very excited to see what lies ahead and what new discoveries will be made.
ISRO's satellite 'X-ray Polarimeter Satellite' aims to conduct deep research on black holes.
Built at a cost of around two and a half crore rupees, this space rocket is capable of operating for around five years.
Earlier in August 2023, India's historic space mission Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the moon, becoming one of the few countries in the world to send its own space mission to the moon.
What is a black hole?
Black holes are the most massive objects in the universe, ranging from 10 billion to 40 billion times the mass of the Sun.
Astronomers believe that these black holes are found at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, but scientists cannot say for sure how these black holes at the center of galaxies formed.
Some experts believe that when a star is at the end of its life, it explodes or turns into a black hole.
Any star turns into a dark opening when everything in its matter is caught in a little space. If we somehow managed to get our sun into a space the size of a tennis ball, it would transform into a dark opening. The gravity is so strong here that nothing, not even light, can escape.