Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1 天
Astronomers Suspect Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Left the Universe Awash in ...
The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...
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MeerKAT: The South African radio telescope that's transformed our understanding of the cosmos
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 ...
AllAfrica.com14 天
South African Telescope Locates Galaxy 32 Times Bigger Than Earth
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 ...
BBC4 年
Kidnapping babies and other strange meerkat behaviour
Meerkats have incredibly complex behaviour, which can also be very surprising Maybe some of the appeal, apart from the incredibly cute babies, is the fact that – like us – they are social ...
The Conversation on MSN14 天
Inkathazo galaxy discovered; it's 32 times larger than the Milky Way
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 past five ...
Knowridge15 天
Astronomers spot a giant radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way
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 ...