This is part of its efforts to popularize science to the General Public and Students who are pursuing science as their career. TNSF attempt to focus on students on higher science as everyone knows
that learning of science at college within the curriculum is not enough to acquire holistic knowledge of science at the appropriate time. Hence, to fill the gap between what students are acquiring through the curriculum and what
it is required, TNSF is planning its activities on higher science to students who are pursuing higher education.
Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe,
the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
discovered that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy.
A supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation.
Introduction
Prof. Parameswaran Ajith
Physicist/Astrophysicist, The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore
The Black hole formation & The centre of our galaxy
Question & Answer
Prof. Parameswaran Ajith is a Physicist/Astrophysicist at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. His research spans different aspects of gravitational-wave astronomy: modelling of gravitational-wave sources by combining analytical and numerical relativity, gravitational-wave data analysis, interpretation of gravitational-wave observations, tests of general relativity using gravitational-wave observations, and astrophysics. He has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2004. Along with his colleagues at the ICTS Astrophysical Relativity Group, he has directly contributed to deciphering the recent LIGO discovery of gravitational waves.