Indranil Banik

Indranil Banik

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of St Andrews

I work on testing whether galaxies are mainly held together by an invisible substance called dark matter or by a tweak to Newton's law of gravity in situations where it has not been directly tested. Observations strongly favor the latter.

Articles by: Indranil Banik

Illustration of light patterns on black void background.

Is Earth inside a giant void? It could solve one of cosmology's biggest puzzles

By Indranil Banik published

Our best observations can't come up with a single answer for how quickly the universe is expanding. Maybe that's because our galaxy is at the center of a giant void.