Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

A major astronomical discovery has just been made using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. A giant radio galaxy, named ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or ...

Astronomers discover Inkathazo, a massive giant radio galaxy spanning 3 million light-years, using South Africa's MeerKAT ...

Radio galaxies already feature mind-bending physics, with supermassive black holes accreting matter at the galactic core and sending out vast plasma jets that glow at radio frequencies. Those larger ...

MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...

"It's only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it's really far away," Anniek ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...