Galaxies, High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
To celebrate twenty years since the launch of the European Space Agency’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, a new catalogue of all of the X-ray sources detected with this satellite has been […]
An international research team led by scientists from Göttingen and Potsdam proved for the first time that the galaxy NGC 6240 contains three supermassive black holes. The unique observations, published […]
A Soyuz rocket has just carried a unique new instrument to the international space station: Mini-EUSO. This imager, which is extremely sensitive to UV rays, will face the Earth. First […]
The 10th X-IFU Consortium Meeting was hosted by IRAP in Toulouse from Monday 16th to Friday 20th of September. Participants met during various splinters and all together for the two […]
Star clusters are formed by the condensation of molecular clouds, groups of cold and dense gases found in all galaxies. The physical properties of these clouds in our galaxy or […]
One century ago, on 1919 May 29th the astronomer Arthur Eddington confirmed the prediction of Albert Einstein that the light is deflected by masses. Eddington used the Sun as mass […]
On the night of 22-23 May 2019, a prototype of the NectarCAM camera, installed in the focal plane of a medium-size telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in […]
A new step has just been successfully taken by the scientists in charge of the realization of the X-IFU spectrometer, the flagship instrument of the future X-rays space telescope : […]
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory today announced the signing of three agreements to build its southern site in Chile, specifically on ESO lands 11km southeast of the Very Large […]