In a remarkable stride forward for astrophysics, researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the powerful MeerKAT ...

African students have spoken about a “profoundly impactful” conference they were able to attend thanks to University of Leeds ...

We are just days away from Australia Day. I had in mind to update an essay I wrote for The Australian in 2014, The Shorter ...

Collaboration published the first image of a black hole, of M87* from the center of the galaxy M87. The measurement data on which the image was based was obtained in 2017. The EHT Collaboration has ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the centre of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

Mexican ecologist Valeria Souza Saldívar has experienced years of threats and intimidation, coming face to face with machete-wielding land defenders – all in the pursuit of science.

These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...

NEW HAVEN, CT – Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has been awarded the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in recognition of her groundbreaking research in black holes and dark ...

South African central bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago was elected chancellor of Stellenbosch University, succeeding retired ...

Stars that currently live in the galaxy’s thick disk were born during a time of galactic chaos, says MIT astrophysicist Tim Hallatt. The stars’ violent upbringing hindered their ability to ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Twenty-five victims' families and survivors of apartheid-era political crimes have sued South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for what they ...

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the ...