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 “
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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Fri, 2024-12-27 This award recognizes PKU postdoctoral scholars whose research has significant scientific and academic value or demonstrates outstanding economic or social benefits.
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Tue, 2024-12-17 Prof. Wu Yuefang, an emeritus faculty of PKU astronomy, passed away peacefully on December 13 after a long illness. During her career, Prof. Wu made significant contributions to our understanding of star formation through her own research and through her stud
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Sun, 2024-12-08 The spinning of Sagittarius A* is vital to characterize the supermassive black hole and it is crucial in testing the “cosmic censorship conjecture” and “no hair theorem” of black hole spacetime in Einstein's general relativity. Previous studies have shown
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