Abhas Mitra

Abhas Mitra is an Indian astrophysicist best known for his distinct views on several front-line astrophysics concepts, particularly black holes and Big Bang Cosmology. His research has received widespread attention, especially in India, which is reflected from the fact that he is one of the most cited Indian Physicists on the web. He has regularly questioned the mainstream cosmological concepts of "Big Bang" and "Black Hole". He claims to have offered exact proofs that The so-called Black Holes cannot be true black black holes even within the context of classical General relativity and The Big Bang solution is illusory and actual universe must be fundamentally different from the big bang paradigm. Consequently Dark Energy, his research claims, is an illusion caused by the departure of the complex universe from the simple big bang model. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Mumbai University. As of 2014, he heads the theoretical astrophysics section of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.