Research News

Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base more

Solving a Long-Standing Mystery of Extreme Blazars more

Observations with the Event Horizon Telescope show deviations from established models of jets in the vicinity of supermassive black holes more

Detection with the Deep-Sea Telescope KM3Net from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea more

Multi-year analysis of observations of the supermassive black hole M87* with the Event Horizon Telescope more

An international team of scientists detected the flare with the James Webb Space Telescope more

Two networks of telescopes zoom in on galaxy NGC 1052 more

Multi-wavelength Campaign with Effelsberg and mm-VLBI Arrays Reveals a High-energy Gamma-ray Flare more

Researchers explore the low-frequency gravitational wave universe with MeerKAT more

A million radio sources probe the motion of the solar system and provide a fundamental test of cosmology more

Event Horizon Telescope Advances to Submillimeter Observations more

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

The rapid decay of a magnetar’s precession after an X-ray outburst likely rules out free precession as their origin more

Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole more

The handover of the first dish of the MeerKAT extension signals an important milestone for the SKA-MID construction more

First observations of the radio galaxy Perseus A with the Event Horizon Telescope more

The SKA-MPIfR Telescope in South Africa is ready for science operations more

MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars more

Improved observations one year after the discovery image give a better picture more

A universal relation for pulsars, magnetars and potentially fast radio bursts more

New M87* results from the Event Horizon Telescope more

A telescope larger than the Earth has found a plasma rope in the Universe more

Blazar Jet Variability probes precession caused by orbiting black holes in the centers of galaxies more

Hiding in plain sight, astronomers find new type of stellar object more

Scientists use the LOFAR telescope to observe low-frequency radio waves from satellites in large constellations for the first time more

Clock-like precision of pulsars opens a new window in the gravitational wave spectrum more

New observations reveal the powerful jet emerging from the black hole in the centre of the galaxy M87 more

Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger announces Germany's entry into the international astronomy project SKA-Observatory more

The densest and longest radio-to-high-energy view of the binary black hole at the center of the active galaxy OJ 287 more

First detection of the atomic ¹⁸O isotope in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere of Earth more