Manchester and Jodrell Bank welcomed the worldwide very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) community for the 17th EVN Symposium and Users' Meeting. Figure 1: EVN Symposium Logo From the 14-19th September 2026, the biennial EVN Symposium came to Manchester for third time in its history, bringing together experts from across the world to discuss VLBI and [...]
Astronomers have captured an exceptionally detailed view of a massive binary star system while it is still forming. By monitoring two young massive stars over nearly eight years with ALMA, and combining the observations with data from the VLA, JWST and VLT, the team reconstructed the system’s three-dimensional orbital motion, gas disks and jets. The [...]
An international team has identified the first convincing example of a microblazar in the Milky Way, a black-hole binary system whose powerful jet is directed almost towards Earth. The system, located about 12,000 light-years away, consists of a black hole orbiting a massive star every 11.38 days. Material falling towards the black hole produces powerful [...]
Scientists using the IRAM 30-m Telescope have taken a closer look at 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever identified passing through our Solar System. Their observations provide a rare opportunity to study the composition of material that formed around another star. By observing the gases surrounding 3I/ATLAS, the team was able to identify several molecules [...]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a series of articles exploring the science, facilities and wider importance of radio astronomy, as well as the growing challenges posed by radio-frequency interference and the rapidly changing space environment. The series covers a broad range of topics, including radio galaxies and black holes, VLBI and geodesy, galaxy [...]
An international team has discovered an exceptionally long-lasting radio outburst from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the nearby galaxy SDSS J110546.07+145202.4, located about 1.8 billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy has remained exceptionally bright at radio wavelengths for more than eight years, with its radio emission increasing by more than a factor [...]
This is a reminder that the European VLBI Network call for proposals deadline is next Thursday (1 October 2026; 16:00 UTC). The next call for proposals is now further away, on 1 April 2027, as the schedule has switched to two calls per year starting in 2027. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your ideas to [...]
e-MERLIN/VLBI National Radio Astronomy Facility Invitation for Proposals: Cycle-23 Deadline for Receipt of Proposals: 13:59:59 UT on 22nd October 2026 Full Details: follow here
The 54th edition of the Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC) was hosted in Oxford from the 17th-21st August to great success. This year’s edition was attended by 40 early career researchers (ECRs), representing institutes from 12 countries, with participants from at least 20 countries represented. YERAC is a unique conference in the landscape of ECR meetings, [...]
Around 70 participants from across Europe and beyond have gathered in Noto, Sicily, for the XI European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS 2026), taking place from 7 to 11 September and hosted by the Institute of Radio Astronomy, part of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). The school is being held at the Consorzio Universitario [...]