Raman Research Institute

The Raman Research Institute, often called RRI, is an autonomous research institute in Bengaluru, India, engaged in research in the basic sciences. It was founded in 1948 by the Indian physicist and Nobel laureate Sir C V Raman. In 1972 it was restructured into an aided autonomous institute that receives its funds from the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, and it marked its platinum jubilee during 2022 and 2023 with conferences, lecture series and outreach events. Its research areas are astronomy and astrophysics, light and matter physics, soft condensed matter, and theoretical physics, and its recent news includes results on black hole jets shaping galaxies and on hydrogen glow detected by the CHIME telescope. The institute is a science body rather than a launching agency, and it is filed with the Asian space agencies because of its astronomy and astrophysics programme.