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Gas on the run – ALMA spots the shadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar when the Universe was less than one billion years old

By | 2024-02-05T09:32:19+00:00 February 5th, 2024|press release|

A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Dragan Salak at Hokkaido University, Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto at the University of Tsukuba, and Professor Akio Inoue at Waseda University, has discovered the first evidence of suppression of star formation driven by an outflow of molecular gas in a quasar-host galaxy in the early Universe. Their [...]

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First observations of the radio galaxy Perseus A with the EHT

By | 2024-02-01T16:39:26+00:00 February 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has recently resolved the jet base of an evolving jet of plasma at ultra-high angular resolution. The international team of scientists used the Earth-size telescope to probe the magnetic structure in the nucleus of the radio galaxy 3C 84 (Perseus A), one of the closest active supermassive black holes in our [...]

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AtLAST newsletter 02/2024 issued

By | 2024-02-01T11:28:14+00:00 February 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

AtLAST is a concept for a next generation 50-meter class single-dish astronomical observatory operating at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths, run as a facility telescope by an international partnership and powered by renewable energy. AtLAST has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 951815 Read here the current [...]

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SKA-Mid prototype dish creates first light image

By | 2024-01-26T08:11:37+00:00 January 26th, 2024|press release|

The first prototype dish of the SKA-Mid telescope constructed on site in South Africa has achieved first light. The prototype, known as SKAMPI, is a fully functioning single-dish radio telescope in its own right and was funded by Germany’s Max Planck Society for technical commissioning and scientific use. It was designed by the SKAO’s international [...]

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ESFRI Report on Access to Research Infrastructures and Charter on Access to RIs published

By | 2024-01-25T10:08:05+00:00 January 25th, 2024|announcement|

There are still challenges to broader and effective access to Research Infrastructures (RIs). The objectives of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures) are to identify these challenges, propose ways to address them and propose orientations for the revision of the European Charter of Access to Research Infrastructures. To this end, the ESFRI Drafting [...]

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Relaunch of EVN seminars

By | 2024-01-24T09:18:16+00:00 January 24th, 2024|Uncategorized|

The EVN announced the relaunch of its virtual seminars. This  EVN series of talks focus on the capabilities of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and its significant contributions to different astronomical fields. The first talk is scheduled for 14 February 2024, at 14:00 CET and will be presented by Jack Radcliffe from the University of [...]

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100-m Effelsberg radio telescope: Open call for proposals

By | 2024-01-23T12:39:19+00:00 January 23rd, 2024|announcement|

The call for proposals of the 100-m radio telescope (Effelsberg/DE) of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy is open. Access/funding is offered through the ORP project. Submission deadline: Deadline 5 February 2024 (15:00 UT) Image: © N. Tacken (MPIfR)

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Open Call for APEX Proposals

By | 2024-01-22T16:20:35+00:00 January 22nd, 2024|Uncategorized|

The Max Planck Society call for APEX Proposals is open. See the call here. Deadline: 23 February 2024 (18:00 CET). Image: © ESO, B. Tafreshi

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

By | 2024-01-22T09:50:26+00:00 January 22nd, 2024|Uncategorized|

An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to discover an intriguing object of an unknown nature in the globular cluster NGC 1851. The massive object is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest [...]

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EHT collaboration published new results

By | 2024-01-19T07:41:52+00:00 January 19th, 2024|press release|

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018. The paper “The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87” (Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347932) presents new images from the 2018 data that reveal [...]

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