Home News Research News Research News Accelerating jets from black holes March 24, 2025 Observations with the Event Horizon Telescope show deviations from established models of jets in the vicinity of supermassive black holes more The Highest Energy Neutrino Ever Observed February 12, 2025 Detection with the Deep-Sea Telescope KM3Net from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea more Catching the Black Hole's Turbulent Accretion Flow January 22, 2025 Multi-year analysis of observations of the supermassive black hole M87* with the Event Horizon Telescope more First-Ever Detection of a Mid-Infrared Flare in Sagittarius A*, the central source of the Milky Way January 14, 2025 An international team of scientists detected the flare with the James Webb Space Telescope more Moving towards a close-up of a black hole and its jets December 17, 2024 Two networks of telescopes zoom in on galaxy NGC 1052 more M87's Powerful Jet Unleashes Rare Gamma-ray Outburst December 13, 2024 Multi-wavelength Campaign with Effelsberg and mm-VLBI Arrays Reveals a High-energy Gamma-ray Flare more Cosmic cartography – mapping the gravitational wave background December 03, 2024 Researchers explore the low-frequency gravitational wave universe with MeerKAT more The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey September 03, 2024 A million radio sources probe the motion of the solar system and provide a fundamental test of cosmology more A New Milestone in Sharpness August 27, 2024 Event Horizon Telescope Advances to Submillimeter Observations more Ten new neutron stars for Terzan 5 July 16, 2024 Astronomers find and study multiple rare and unusual pulsars in dense stellar cluster using MeerKAT in South Africa and the U.S. Green Bank Telescope more A wobbling magnetised star challenges the origin of repeating fast radio bursts April 08, 2024 The rapid decay of a magnetar’s precession after an X-ray outburst likely rules out free precession as their origin more Sagittarius A* March 27, 2024 Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole more MeerKAT+: the MeerKAT Extension February 21, 2024 The handover of the first dish of the MeerKAT extension signals an important milestone for the SKA-MID construction more Magnetic launching of black hole jets in Perseus A February 01, 2024 First observations of the radio galaxy Perseus A with the Event Horizon Telescope more SKAMPI Takes Off January 25, 2024 The SKA-MPIfR Telescope in South Africa is ready for science operations more Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? January 18, 2024 MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars more New EHT observations of M87 reveal persistent black hole shadow January 18, 2024 Improved observations one year after the discovery image give a better picture more Extreme stars share unique properties that may provide a link to mysterious sources November 23, 2023 A universal relation for pulsars, magnetars and potentially fast radio bursts more A supermassive black hole’s strong magnetic fields are revealed in a new light November 08, 2023 New M87* results from the Event Horizon Telescope more Astronomers capture formation of a powerful cosmic jet October 26, 2023 A telescope larger than the Earth has found a plasma rope in the Universe more A Smoking Gun for Supermassive Binaries in Active Galactic Nuclei August 31, 2023 Blazar Jet Variability probes precession caused by orbiting black holes in the centers of galaxies more An ultra-long period magnetar? July 19, 2023 Hiding in plain sight, astronomers find new type of stellar object more New radio astronomical observations confirm unintended electromagnetic radiation emanating from large satellite constellations July 05, 2023 Scientists use the LOFAR telescope to observe low-frequency radio waves from satellites in large constellations for the first time more A new view of the Universe June 29, 2023 Clock-like precision of pulsars opens a new window in the gravitational wave spectrum more How the black hole in M87 launches a jet April 26, 2023 New observations reveal the powerful jet emerging from the black hole in the centre of the galaxy M87 more Overcoming borders with the SKAO supertelescope March 29, 2023 Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger announces Germany's entry into the international astronomy project SKA-Observatory more Weighing OJ 287 and the project MOMO February 23, 2023 The densest and longest radio-to-high-energy view of the binary black hole at the center of the active galaxy OJ 287 more Oxygen in Earth’s Higher Atmosphere February 02, 2023 First detection of the atomic 18O isotope in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere of Earth more Nine new and exotic creatures for the pulsar zoo January 25, 2023 New discoveries from the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT Project more RAS Group Award 2023 goes to MeerKAT January 13, 2023 The MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa receives prestigious award of the Royal Astronomical Society more Show more
