Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR3) mapped 13.7 million radio sources, providing detailed data on supermassive black holes and rare cosmic phenomena.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope array with vast, cosmic bubbles of ...

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Get ready to see our galaxy like never before. Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency ...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee astronomers helped discover a unique space object emitting both radio waves and X-rays. This discovery may lead to identifying a new type of star and further ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, South African scientists have detected a record-breaking radio laser from a distant galaxy, ...

Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the vast expanse of the Australian Outback—these are where ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Key points Telescopes collect light that was emitted a long time ago and is only now reaching us on Earth. This means telescopes see the Universe as ...

For radio astronomy, things get even better during the lunar night, when the sun drops beneath the horizon and is blocked by the moon’s mass. For up to 14 Earth-days at a time, a spot on the moon’s ...