Astronomers are collecting evidence for the gravitational wave background of the Universe, caused by merging supermassive black holes. Now, the…
For decades, astronomers have used powerful instruments to capture images of the cosmos in various wavelengths. This includes optical images,…
Most neutron stars spin rapidly, completing a rotation in seconds or even a fraction of a second. But astronomers have…
Studying gas in the Universe is no easy task. We often look to ‘non-visible’ wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum such…
What were you doing last Saturday? As it turns out, I was doing something rather unexciting… Trying to fix my…
Breakthrough Listen, a privately funded project seeking evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, has started operations on the MeerKAT radio telescope array…
Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!
Strange galaxy-sized circles are emitting radio light, and we don't know why.
The inner 600 light years of our galaxy is a maelstrom of cosmic radiation, turbulent swirling gas clouds, intense star…
The center of the Milky Way is a mysterious place. Astronomers think there's a supermassive black hole there, though it…