The SKA Observatory (SKAO) is pleased to announce the appointment of the new directors in Australia and South Africa. These positions are the most senior SKAO operations representatives in the telescope host countries. Dr Sarah Pearce, currently Acting Chief Scientist of Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, will be the director of the SKAO’s low-frequency telescope in [...]
The European VLBI Network Call for Proposals is now open. Deadline for proposal submission is June 1, 2021, 16:00 UTC. Find full information here.
Read the new RadioNet newsletter 4/2021 here.
Beginning in April 2021, the CTAO and the CTAC will launch the monthly webinar series Synergies in the Exploration of the Extreme Universe, focused on the various MWL and MM synergies of CTA science with other instruments, and aimed at researchers in astrophysics and astronomy. Each webinar will take place on the fourth Thursday of [...]
The Call for proposals for the EVN will be announced beginning of May 2021. Stay tuned! Submission deadline: June 1, 2021.
This year the ERC will reach an important milestone: soon 10 000 scientists and scholars from Europe and beyond will have received ERC funding to pursue their best ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. During an online ceremony on May 6, 2021, the ERC will welcome the 10 000th grantee and will highlight a few other ERC [...]
Super-massive black holes are found at the centers of many galaxies. But all efforts to detect these mysterious objects directly suffer from the fact that no information from their interior can reach us directly. Now, astrophysicist Professor Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and founding chairman of the Event [...]
An international team of astronomers has published the most sensitive images of the Universe ever taken at low radio frequencies, using the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). By observing the same regions of sky over and over again and combining the data to make a single very-long exposure image, the team has detected the faint [...]
Read here the article New images of magnetic fields surrounding a black hole from the EC´s CORDIS EU Research Results on the revealed new image of a black hole: the supermassive black hole viewed in polarised light, at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy. Find here here also the two papers with the results of the research [...]
On April 21, 2021, the European Commission will continue its information series on preparing a successful proposal in Horizon Europe. On the agenda are important cross-cutting topics that all successful proposals must bring, for example Open Science, gender dimension, dissemination and communication. Find here the agenda and the registration form.