Which Indian institute carried out the Centaurus X-3 study highlighted by the Department of Science and Technology on 21 October 2026?
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The Centaurus X-3 research report connects an Indian institute with the physical process by which a compact star gains matter. Revise the research institution separately from the celestial object being investigated.
Correct answer: B — Raman Research Institute. The Raman Research Institute is the institution named in the release. The question concerns the research team’s affiliation, not the name of a satellite or a launch agency. Link the institute to the pulsar study and then distinguish the object of research from the organisation conducting it. Researchers at the Raman Research Institute studied the X-ray pulsar Centaurus X-3. Their analysis of changing secondary emission lines supported an accretion stream and disk around the pulsar. The finding is notable because direct stellar-wind capture is the more usual picture for high-mass X-ray binaries. Official source: Press Information Bureau
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