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Banibrata Mukhopadhyay is an Indian Scientist/Astrophysicist and a professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, born at Kolkatta, India to Pulak Mukhopadhyay, a biologist, and Tapati Mukhopadhyay, an academician. Mukhopadhyay's mother tongue is Bengali.
Mukhopadhyay's work, first with his students and then with collaborators, has identified a mechanism to allow significantly super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs to exist without collapsing into neutron stars[verification needed], which could explain the origin of over-luminous type Ia supernovae.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The idea of super-chandrashekar White-Dwarfs and their new mass-limit was proposed by physicists in the later 20th century, however, Mukhopadhyay's work on these stars is yet to be confirmed by direct observation (unlike by indirect over-luminous type Ia supernovae). He has also proposed a solution to the century-old problem of the origin of linear instability and subsequent turbulence and matter transport in Rayleigh-stable pure hydrodynamical shear flows, which could explain turbulence in accretion disks[verification needed]. This idea is to be confirmed by laboratory experiments. His another work is able to predict the spin of black holes.[verification needed].[7][8][9][10]
Mukhopadhyay's research interests include black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars (called as compact astrophysical objects),[11][12][13][14][15][16] in general, relativistic, high energy and nuclear astrophysics; astrophysical fluid dynamics and other related/similar fluid flows; Einstein's general relativity and its possible modifications and their applications to understand enigmatic astrophysical observations; and field theory in curved spacetime including baryogenesis.[verification needed]
His work on Fluid Dynamics was featured in the Indian Express newspaper.[17]
In recognition of his work, Mukhopadhyay has received the following awards:
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