Direct detections of gravitational waves have become a powerful new tool of multi-messenger astrophysics. Apart from … more Astrophysics with continuous gravitational waves»
The halo of the Milky Way is an extended and roughly spherical region, sparsely populated by … more Unsupervised Machine Learning Helps to Decipher the Galactic Halo»
H.E.S.S. observatory records 20 TeV photons from the Vela pulsar Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in … more Scientists discover the highest energy gamma rays from a pulsar»
Fig. 1 The elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) may represent the missing link between stellar … more Dragon II - simulations with up to 1 milion stars»
The H.E.S.S. Observatory has been featured on NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website. Every … more The H.E.S.S. Observatory featured on NASA's website.»
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, has had a pretty interesting past. It has grown over … more History of the old stellar populations of the Milky Way»
Despite we know thousands of extrasolar planets (exoplanets), only a small fraction of them have been … more Direct imaging and astrometric detection of a gas giant planet»
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) have luminosities Lx>1039 erg/s and are not located in … more Ultraluminous X-ray sources»
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Maria Luiza Linhares Dantas, a postdoctoral researcher at … more Visitors from the heart of the Milky Way»