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 ...

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Credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO ... notes Anastasia Fialkov, a cosmologist and astrophysicist at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England. Telescopes in space ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

From the total lunar eclipse in March to three epic supermoons this fall, these are the best celestial events of 2025 that are worth traveling for (plus one to look forward to in 2026!).

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 ...

A new observatory set up by the S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBCBS), an autonomous institute of the Department of Sc ...

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 ...