Blackholes that are relatively smaller compared to this are exotic end states of massive stellar cores, astronomers led by TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) in Mumbai said. According to a researched published in The Astrophysical Journey, the gravity of such a collapsing star is very strong that its entire mass is crushed into a point. However, this cannot be seen as not even light can escape from the region around a black hole.
Astronomical black holes, surprisingly, are the simplest known objects in the universe as they can be fully characterized by only two properties, mass and spin rate. Therefore, measurements of these two properties are uniquely important to investigate some extreme aspects of the universe, and the fundamental physics related to them, researchers said.
In regard to this matter, Bhattacharyya stated that the first cooperation of India and US using Chandra and AstroStat for studying black holes should open up more ways for such collaborations in the future.
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