Ashoke Sen FRS (born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.

ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a public service broadcaster and the largest media organization in the United Kingdom.

A black hole is a region in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it.

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a scientific award, funded by internet entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company 23andMe.

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a private research university located in Pasadena, California.

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is a renowned and highly respected international laboratory situated in Meyrin, Switzerland.