The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

In one project, MeerKAT was used to observe the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This allowed our team to see for the first time magnetic filaments that surround the supermassive black hole at ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious unknown object in our galaxy that could be a breakthrough in the study of black holes. The “extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star” lies about 235,000 ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble' in both Xhosa and Zulu, due to the difficulty in understanding the ...

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered a massive new radio galaxy spanning more than 32 times the size of the Milky Way, a researcher revealed Saturday.

In some cases, the black hole will even spew jets of plasma ... However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the ...

KKL Charlton (UCT), MeerKAT, HSC, Carta, IDIA. Licence: CC BY You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as ...

South African MeerKAT radio telescope ... Scientists think the jets are powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. It's been nicknamed “Inkathazo”—meaning trouble ...

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times the size of the Milky Way. This massive structure was found using South ...