Read article 'DESY’s astroparticle aspirations'
Christian Stegmann, director of DESY’s newly established research division for astroparticle physics, describes the ambitious plans ahead in this vibrant field.
Read article 'First images of the centre of a galaxy'
On 10 April, researchers working on the Event Horizon Telescope released the first direct image of a black hole.
Read article 'Mysterious burst confounds astrophysicists'
Hypotheses are that the Cow was either a compact object being destroyed when coming too close to a black hole, or a special type of supernova in which a black hole or magnetar is produced.
Read article 'Colliders join the hunt for dark energy'
The ATLAS collaboration carried out a first collider search for light scalar particles that could contribute to the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Read article 'Solving the next mystery in astrophysics'
Until recently the number of theories on the origin of fast radio bursts outnumbered the number of observations.
Read article 'Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger'
Many of the stars appearing in the night sky did not originate from within our galaxy.
Read article 'Particle physics meets astrophysics and gravity'
The 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018) took place on 4–12 July in Kolymbari, Crete.
Read article 'Gravitational hunt for extra dimensions'
If extra dimensions are large, part of the gravitational field would “leak” into the extra dimensions and gravitational waves would be weaker than expected.
Read article 'Particle interactions up to the highest energies'
The 20th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2018) was held in Nagoya, Japan.
Read article 'Solving the mystery of a historic stellar blast'
Some 180 years ago, a relatively normal star called Eta Carinae suddenly brightened to become the second brightest star in the sky, before almost disappearing at the end of the 19th century.
