The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...

A major astronomical discovery has just been made using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. A giant radio galaxy, named Inkathazo, has been identified, with plasma jets extending over phenomenal ...

Published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the discovery by University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers and South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope features contributions from ...

Astronomers discover Inkathazo, a massive giant radio galaxy spanning 3 million light-years, using South Africa's MeerKAT telescope, challenging our understanding of cosmic structures.

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known structures in the Universe.

They were considered rare. However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the past five years about 11,000 giants have ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, consists of 64 radio dishes, and is operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory.