JVN was born on July 19, 1938, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. His parents taught at Banaras Hindu University. After doing his ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

What began as a mathematical curiosity scorned by leading scientists has become the cornerstone of modern astrophysics, ...

Does the exploding sun affect the earth immediately or only after 8 minutes? Einstein created the General Theory of ...

Scientists have long been aware of time's quirks, with the British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington musing about this "arrow of time" in his 1927 lectures. Nevertheless, whether it be because ...

He continued this work until his death in 1955. The work was not completed. Arthur Eddington, Theodor Kaluza and others have also put forward their theories on how to unify gravity and ...

Sir Arthur Eddington’s team sought to take advantage of the daytime darkness provided by the eclipse to observe and photograph stars nearest the sun at the moment. The whole point of the ...

The rate at which a black hole feeds on matter is governed by what astronomers call the Eddington limit. This limit — named after the English astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington because he ...

In London there was a British astronomer who was not merely following Einstein's reasoning, Arthur Eddington also had an idea about how this presumed bending of light could be tested. Eddington ...