Call for Nominations
The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) expects to have an opening for a scientific director position (f/m/d).
The Institute invites nominations, including self-nominations, for consideration.
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An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes launch relativistic jets. The sixteen sources were observed with the Event Horizon Telescope during its first campaign in 2017 ...
From the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the KM3NeT neutrino telescope to detect a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 ...
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The galaxy M87 is one of the prime targets for high resolution radio imaging to investigate the ring-like “shadow” of its supermassive black hole, the innermost regions of accretion flow, and the formation of the relativistic jet. In 2018 ...
25 distinct plasma structures in the direction of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437−4715 have been found in observations obtained with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. The results provide insights into the turbulent interstellar medium and ...