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Dormant black hole discovered outside our galaxy
20.07.2022The "Police of Black Holes" with the participation of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA) shows a stellar-mass black hole.
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Der Astroclub lädt ein: Astronomie vor der Erfindung des Teleskops
05.05.2022Erfahre in dem Vortrag wie Menschen sich Astronomie vor der Erfindung des Teleskops zu Nutzen gemacht haben und welche Hilfsmittel ihnen dazu zur Verfügung standen.
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"A totally unexpected result!"
01.02.2022Physics & Astronomy Foundation, together with the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, awards the 2022 Doctoral Prize
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Radio Evidence of a Minor Merger in The Shapley Supercluster
17.01.2022A group of astronomers led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics with contributions from the Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA) at the University of Bonn has conducted a multi-frequency and multi-band study of the Shapley Supercluster, where the formation of large structures is ongoing at the present cosmological age. Radio astronomers have discovered a radio emission that acts as a "bridge" between a cluster of galaxies and a group of galaxies. The latter recently collided with the cluster like a giant bullet that triggered the emission. The observations, reported in an Astronomy & Astrophysics article, were carried out with the Australian ASKAP radio telescope, the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, and the Indian Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Optical data collected with ESO's Vlt Survey Telescope (VST) and X-ray data from ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope completed the study.
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Big Bang to Big Data - AIfA participates in new science cluster
17.11.2021The "NRW-Cluster für datenintensive Radioastronomie: Big Bang to Big Data" (B3D) has set itself the task of combining radio astronomy and data science. AIfA is a member and will participate in the next three years in networking the knowledge of radio astronomers, interested data scientists as well as companies from the industry.
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