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 ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered ... to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), which will be the world's largest telescope when it commences science operations around 2028.

The discovery was published on Jan 17 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble ...

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 ...

In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas ... However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the past five ...

The SALT Astronomy software team supports SALT Astronomy Operations to operate, maintain, and develop software for the scientific analysis of observations from the Southern African Large Telescope. We ...

In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the supermassive black hole and getting pulled in beyond the event horizon and essentially on to the black hole.

In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas ... However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa's MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the past five years ...