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 ...

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

Project Phoenix’ was initiated by small research organisation known as the SETI Institute. But it was lucky to get off the ...

However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT ... be the world’s largest telescope. MeerKAT has already been pivotal in uncovering some of the hidden ...

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 ...

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 ...