Who is Rohan Naidu? Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer, Harvard student who led ‘Black Hole Star’ discovery
Hyderabad-born Rohan Naidu led the discovery of the mysterious, strange object that astronomers now call 'Black Hole Star.' He was a Harvard student and had dropped out of engineer school at 18. Here's all you need to know about him.
Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan P. Naidu led the discovery of a mysterious object known as the "Black Hole Star." Naidu is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature on August 12 that analyzes the discovery. The object, called MoM-BH*-1, is an extremely bright red spot in the early universe, resembling a star but being 100 billion times brighter.
It spans the size of our solar system and emits energy levels similar to what a black hole might generate. The object, believed to be a fusion of a black hole and an enormous star, has never been observed before and could explain the mysterious "little red dots" often seen in deep-space images. This enigmatic red object existed just 660 million years after the Big Bang.
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