An international team of researchers from ten countries led by Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity with some ...
The European Pulsar Timing Array collaboration reports on the outcome of a 24 year observing campaign with five large-aperture radio telescopes in Europe, resulting in a candidate signal for the since-long sought gravitational wave background due to ...
Since mid-December 2021, a new plaque can be seen on the outside wall of the Mannheim Planetarium, identifying the building as an outpost of the Milky Way Trail at the Effelsberg radio telescope, namely the galaxy NGC 205.
The Milky Way Trail is one ...
An international team of astronomers has utilized the South African MeerKAT radio telescope to discover a mysterious chain of hydrogen gas clouds the size of a massive galaxy. The accumulation of so much elemental hydrogen without associated stellar ...