The RadioNet Board has appointed Rob Beswick (University of Manchester) as Spokesperson and Agnieszka Słowikowska (JIV-ERIC) as Vice-Spokesperson of the RadioNet Consortium. Their two-year terms will begin on 1 February 2026. The RadioNet community warmly congratulates Rob and Aga and wishes them every success as they take on these roles. The community also extends its [...]
Astronomers have discovered an invisible object with a mass of about one million Suns that doesn’t fit any known cosmic structure. Using gravitational lensing and data from radio telescopes around the world, including the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)—the team revealed a compact core (likely [...]
A symbolic moment in millimetre-wave VLBI at the Max-Planck-Institute für Radioastronomie (MPIfR): For the first time, the 12-meter APEX telescope in Chile and the 100-meter Effelsberg radio telescope in Germany have successfully detected VLBI fringes between them. Both telescopes are operated by the MPIfR). APEX, located at 5100 m altitude on the Chajnantor Plateau in [...]
The IAU Centre for the protection of the Dark and Quiet Skys from Satellites Constellation Interface (IAU CPS) has published the first edition of the CPS members newsletter. Read more.
The RadioNet newsletter issue 03/2025 is published. Read here.
Equality in research and innovation (R&I) is a core value of the European Union, essential for fostering excellence, diversity, and inclusiveness. Since its first publication in 2003, the She Figures report serves as a key source of comparable, Europe-wide statistics on gender equality in Research and Innovation. In line with previous editions, She Figures 2024 [...]
Initially developed in 2020 under the RadioNet project (EC GA 730562), the BRAND (BRoad bAND) receiver has been successfully tested and partially commissioned at the Effelsberg 100-meter radio telescope, marking a significant advancement in radio astronomy. Designed by Gino Tuccari (INAF) with contributions from MPIfR, OSO, ASTRON, Yebes Observatory, and Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, [...]
An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been found in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. The discovery, based on data collected by the European Southern Observatory’s [...]
“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered [...]
The RadioNet Newsletter 10/2024 has just been issued - read it here.