MUSKAN BHATIANew Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Jayant Narlikar, India's renowned astrophysicist, science communicator, and Padma Vibhushan awardee, has been posthumously awarded the Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, the country's highest scientific honour.
Narlikar, who passed away on May 20 this year at the age of 86, was celebrated for his bold and unconventional contributions to cosmology.
He challenged the Big Bang theory - which posits that the universe originated from a single massive explosion - and, along with British astronomer Fred Hoyle, proposed the steady state theory, suggesting that the universe has always existed, with new matter continuously created over time.
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