Modern Indian Astronomers and Their Work on Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Govind Swarup was an Indian radio astronomer who made significant contributions to the study of X-ray emission from black holes.

U. R. Rao was an Indian space scientist who discovered the first X-ray binary system in 1965.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who made significant contributions to the study of the formation of neutron stars.

Jayant Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist who developed the theory of black hole accretion disks.

Ramnath Cowsik is an Indian astrophysicist who made significant contributions to the study of gravitational waves from black holes.

A. K. Kembhavi is an Indian astronomer who discovered the first millisecond pulsar in 1982.

Dipankar Bhattacharya is an Indian astrophysicist who made significant contributions to the study of the evolution of neutron stars.

B. V. Sreekantan is an Indian astrophysicist who developed the theory of neutron star cooling.

Arvind Parthasarathy is an Indian astrophysicist who discovered the first double neutron star system in 1990.

Rashmi Sharma is an Indian astrophysicist who made significant contributions to the study of X-ray emission from neutron stars.

Pramesh Rao is an Indian astrophysicist who developed the theory of neutron star glitches.

Sanjeev Dhurandhar is an Indian astrophysicist who made significant contributions to the study of gravitational waves from neutron stars.

D. C. Joshi is an Indian astronomer who discovered the first neutron star in a globular cluster in 1989.

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay is an Indian astrophysicist who made significant contributions to the study of the equation of state of neutron stars.