News Research News Research News A Sanitizer in the Galactic Centre Region June 28, 2022 Interstellar Detection of Iso-Propanol in Sagittarius B2 more A Slowly Rotating Neutron Star May 30, 2022 Unusual neutron star spinning every 76 seconds is discovered in stellar graveyard more Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way May 12, 2022 Breakthrough discovery: EHT´s unprecedented observations improve our understanding of what happens at the very centre of our galaxy more A last GREAT opportunity for decades to come May 04, 2022 GREAT prepares for SOFIA’s last flight mission more The Hunt for the Gravitational Wave Background April 07, 2022 NASA’s FERMI Satellite Hunts for Extremely Long-wavelength Gravitational Wave Signals more Cosmic flashes pinpointed to a surprising location in space February 23, 2022 Localisation of a recurring source of radio flashes in the nearby galaxy M81 more Supermassive black hole caught hiding in a ring of cosmic dust February 16, 2022 MATISSE observations of the centre of the active galaxy NGC 1068 at the ESO-VLTI more The Early Cooling of our Universe February 02, 2022 Shadow of cosmic water cloud reveals the temperature of the young Universe more Images at the Highest Angular Resolution in Astronomy January 19, 2022 How a Binary Black Hole may be Bending the Relativistic Jet in the Quasar OJ 287 more The Search for an Isotropic Gravitational Wave Background January 12, 2022 World-wide radio telescope network enhances signal that may hint at ultra-low frequency gravitational waves more Einstein wins again December 13, 2021 The theory of general relativity passes a range of precise tests set by pair of extreme stars more Towards the Detection of the Nanohertz Gravitational-wave background October 27, 2021 The European Pulsar Timing Array provides a significant step forward more Artificial intelligence sharpens the view into space August 30, 2021 New research cluster combines radio astronomy and data science in North Rhine-Westphalia more GLOSTAR - tracing atomic and molecular gas in the Milky Way July 22, 2021 Two powerful telescopes provide the most detailed radio maps of the Northern Galactic Plane more Into the Dark Heart of Centaurus A July 19, 2021 Event Horizon Telescope exposes the center of the nearest radio galaxy more A new telescope to study Einstein’s theory and Nature’s most compact objects May 06, 2021 Using the South African MeerKAT telescope, astronomers started to systematically explore binary pulsars for tests of gravity more The Discovery of 8 New Millisecond Pulsars April 28, 2021 South Africa’s MeerKAT Radio Telescope explored the central re-gions of globular clusters in search of very weak pulsars more Multifrequency Observations of M87* April 14, 2021 Telescopes unite in unprecedented observations of the famous black hole more The Opticon-RadioNet Pilot Project (ORP) is launched March 25, 2021 Kick-off for Europe’s largest astronomy network more EHT Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M 87’s Black Hole March 24, 2021 Event Horizon Telescope Observations of Polarised Radio Emission of the Supermassive Object in the Centre of M87 more SOFIA/GREAT observations offer new insights into star formation March 17, 2021 The flying observatory was stationed at Cologne Bonn Airport until 16 March 2021 more Astronomers see whirlwind around possible exoplanet-in-the-making January 21, 2021 MATISSE observations of the asymmetrical inner disk of HD 163296 more The Opticon-RadioNet Pilot Project (ORP) December 22, 2020 European Commission facilitates use of European telescopes more INAF joins the MeerKAT+ Project December 17, 2020 The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft welcome the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica as partner on the MeerKAT extension project more An astonishing new three-dimensional view of the dense interstellar gas in our Milky Way December 03, 2020 SEDIGISM, a survey with the APEX telescope, studies molecular clouds and star formation in the inner galaxy more The Distances of the Stars November 19, 2020 Resolving Long-standing Mysteries About the First Parallaxes in Astronomy more The ring around the M 87* black hole shadow glitters September 22, 2020 Turbulent evolution of the M 87* black hole image from 2009 to 2017 more The MeerKAT Extension Project September 16, 2020 Improvement of the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa by 20 additional dishes more Magnetized gas flows feed a young star cluster August 18, 2020 Polarimetric observations with SOFIA/HAWC+ show the orientation of magnetic field lines more First radio detection of an extrasolar planetary system around a main-sequence star August 04, 2020 VLBA Network Finds Planet Orbiting a Small, Cool Star more Show more
