South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers ...
Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio ...
Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others ...
Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...
North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...
In a remarkable stride forward for astrophysics, researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the powerful MeerKAT ...
At first, we had no idea the source was emitting periodic radio pulses. Only a single burst had been detected during the ...
The giant radio galaxy (GRG) will help broaden astronomers understanding of the largest structures in the universe.