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Six postdocs at PKU astronomy awarded Boya Postdoctoral Fellows

Wed, 2025-04-23  PKU awarded six incoming astronomy postdocs as Boya Postdoctoral Fellows, from a competitive pool of over 50 candidates. Five of the postdocs, Suyeon Son, Anindya Saha, Logan Fries, Kan Chen, and Dan Qiu, are affiliated with KIAA, while one, Zhao Li, is affili

Kohei Inayoshi awarded the "The Young Scientists’ Award” from MEXT of Japan

Tue, 2025-04-22  Prof.Kohei Inayoshi at KIAA was awarded the "The Young Scientists’ Award” from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, a prestigious honor that recognizes and encourages exceptional young researchers in the fields

Astronomers use LAMOST to find over 1,300 new quasars behind Galactic plane

Mon, 2025-04-21  A group of astronomers has found over 1,300 new quasars behind the Galactic plane by using China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), and the scientists said the results shed new light on some hot issues of cosmic research.

A new Max Planck Partner Group is formed between KIAA and MPE

Tue, 2025-04-01  Recently, the Max Planck Society (MPG) approved the establishment of a new Max Planck Partner Group led by Dr. Jinyi Shangguan, an Assistant Professor at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University. The group will focus on “

KIAA Scientist and Student Interviewed by AAS Journal Deputy Editor Frank Timmes on GPU-Based High-Performance Binary

Tue, 2025-04-01  Recently, Lile Wang and Suwei Wang from KIAA were interviewed by Professor Frank Timmes, deputy editor of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals.

New “Archaeological” Discovery by PKU Astronomers: Supermassive Black Hole Binary Merger at Milky Way’s Center 10 M

Fri, 2025-03-28  A research team led by Professor Liu Fukun from the Department of Astronomy at the School of Physics of Peking University and the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics recently discovered that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, S

Announcing the ALMA Proposal Workshop

Mon, 2025-03-03  

Catching a runaway star ejected from a globular cluster by an intermediate-mass black hole

Thu, 2025-02-20  Recently, researchers from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Astronomical Observatories, Yunnan Observatories, Peking University, Beijing NormalUniversityproposed that searching for high-velocity stars ejected from globular clusters due t

Researchers find dark matter dominating in early universe galaxies

Fri, 2025-02-07  An international team of researchers led by PKU PhD student Qinyue Fei has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away, reports a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal on 5 F

Historic Palomar Observatory upgraded with a state-of-the-art spectrograph

Wed, 2025-01-08  On November 8, 2024, astronomers at Caltech's Palomar Observatory directed a brand-new spectrograph instrument, the Next Generation Palomar Spectrograph (NGPS), to capture data from a newfound supernova. The resulting spectrum from the erupting star was a deli
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