Astronomers ask public to help find newly formed black holes
The Dutch Black Hole Consortium has launched an 8-language version of the BlackHoleFinder app that citizens all over the world can use to help identify newly formed black holes.
Teresa Bister receives Veni grant
Veni grants for four promising Nikhef researchers and colleague at High Energy Physics, Teresa Bister, is one of them.
Unprecedented emission line detected in the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded
A team of international scientists has identified an unprecedented emission line in the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. The study, published 26 July in Science, marks a significant advancement in the understanding of GRBs.
Study finds cosmic fingerprints of sulfur rings
For the first time, a team of scientists from HFML-FELIX at Radboud University has unveiled the cosmic fingerprints of sulfur rings.
NWO Veni grants for research into privacy in criminal law, mining and malaria
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to fifteen young researchers at Radboud University and Radboudumc. With this grant of up to 320.000 euro they can further elaborate their own ideas during a period of three years.
European multidisciplinary consortium SynOD starts this July
In July the consortium SynOD, which aims to find drug targets for Parkinson’s and related diseases, will start. Within the consortium, Radboud professor Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat is responsible for the development of statistical methods.
Weird neutron star is part of an unusual star system
A pulsar whose behaviour could not easily be explained turns out to be part of an unusual dual system. This is the conclusion of research by Emma van der Wateren, who will be defending her PhD thesis at Radboud University on 10 June.
NWO-M1 grant for Peter Hochs and PhD opportunity
Peter Hochs won an NWO-M1 grant with the project Higher Invariants of Finite-Volume Spaces. This enables him to hire a PhD-candidate who will develop and apply new invariants of certain non-compact manifolds which have finite volume.
The first scientific images from the Euclid telescope surpass all expectations
ESA has published five images taken with the Euclid space telescope. According to astronomers working with the data, these images surpass all expectations and demonstrate that Euclid is capable of unraveling the secrets of the universe.
Five new KNAW members from Radboud University and Radboud University Medical Center
Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Floris Rutjes, Tamar Sharon, Caroline Slomp and Caroline Klaver have been appointed as new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has shows the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in polarized light. The results were published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Conny Aerts receives Crafoord Prize for astronomy
Professor of Asteroseismology Conny Aerts, affiliated with Radboud University and KU Leuven, has been awarded the Crafoord Prize for astronomy.
Gravitational wave detector LISA officially adopted by ESA as mission
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) opens up a new part of the gravitational wave spectrum as the first space-based detector.
M87* one year later: proof of persistent black hole shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown in new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Africa Millimetre Telescope planetarium team receive Royal Astronomical Society Medal for outreach
The mobile planetarium team of the Africa Millimetre Telescope project is honoured by the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) with the 2024 Annie Maunder Medal for Outreach.
BlackGEM telescopes at La Silla Observatory in Chile officially opened
Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science officially opened the BlackGEM telescope array at ESO's La Silla observatory.
Black hole symphonies: revealing the complexities in gravitational waves
In this new work, the authors showed the presence of QNM frequencies predicted by second-order perturbation theory in the gravitational wave flux infalling into the horizon.
Observations of planetary cradles find water and conditions for forming Earth-like planets even in harsh environments
Planets like our Earth, including planets with water, could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments, drenched by hard UV light from massive stars.
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The observation of multiple ringdown modes in a binary black hole merger
An international team of researchers including Prof. Badri Krishnan at Radboud University has verified an important property of black holes known as the no-hair theorem using gravitational wave observations.
James Webb discovers sand clouds on “cotton candy planet” WASP-107b
An international team of astronomers, co-led by Michiel Min (SRON), has discovered a silicate-based weather system on a fluffy gas planet around the star WASP-107. It is the first time that scientists find clouds and rain made of sand.
