02 June 2017
A third success for LIGO as more gravitational waves detected
... College Park Professor of Physics and LSC principal investigator who also has an appointment as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. Buonanno, who has been at the forefront of developing highly accurate...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
... Way? Turning exoplanet-hunting on its head, a group of scientists from Queen's University Belfast and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have been looking at how an alien observer might be able to detect...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... patterns could hide atmospheric components from telescopic observations, a team of researchers led by Ludmila Carone of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany found that this day-night divide can have a considerable effect on the...
29 March 2018
A see-through galaxy questions the need for dark matter
... one of these things is completely unknown,” added co-author Allison Merritt from Yale University and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany. Is this the end for dark matter? Well, just because NGC 1052...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
... and NACO) to make new infrared observations. The international team, led by Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Garching, Germany), compared the position and velocity measurements with predictions of Newtonian...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
...a massive black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light," marvelled Oliver Pfuhl, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE). "GRAVITY’s tremendous sensitivity has allowed us to observe the accretion processes in real...
