Read article 'Massive black-hole pair is on fast-merger track'
Earlier this year, astronomers discovered what appeared to be a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) circling towards a collision, which would send out a burst of gravitational waves. A new study ...
Read article 'The universe is getting out of breath'
A new study of more than 200,000 galaxies, from the ultraviolet to the far infrared, has provided the most comprehensive assessment of the energy output of the nearby universe. It confirms that the ra...
Read article 'First light for the PAU camera'
PAUCam, the camera for the Physics of the Accelerating Universe (PAU) project, has been successfully installed and commissioned at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Ob...
Read article 'Do magnetars power hour-long gamma-ray bursts?'
Based on optical observations, a team of astronomers has, for the first time, demonstrated a link between a very long-lasting gamma-ray burst (GRB) and an unusually bright supernova explosion. The res...
Read article 'Massimo Tarenghi: a lifetime in the stars'
Massimo Tarenghi fell in love with astronomy at age 14, when his mother took away his stamp collection – on which he spent more time than on his schoolbooks – and gave him a book entitled L...
Read article 'VLT sees evidence for first-generation stars'
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a very bright galaxy in the early universe, and found strong evidence that it contains first-generation stars. These massive lu...
Read article 'A new neutrino telescope for Lake Baikal'
In early April, members of the Baikal collaboration deployed and started operation of the first cluster of the Gigaton Volume Detector (Baikal-GVD). Named “Dubna”, the cluster comprises 19...
Read article 'Magnetic fields cast light on black hole’s edge'
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) has revealed an intense magnetic field at the base of the relativistic jet powered by a supermassive black hole. Probing the physical conditions...
Read article 'The road from CERN to space'
An interview with the high-energy physicist who now heads the Italian Space Agency.
Read article 'Dark-matter self-interactions are weak'
Astronomers using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collid...
