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KIAA-PKU Hosts the “2024 KIAA Postdoc Forum”

Fri, 2024-12-06  The Forum brought together more than 40 postdoctoral researchers from different institutions in China, providing them with the opportunity to present their work and engage in discussions and plan future collaboration.

The Sizzling Accretion Disk of the Young Star FU Orionis

Thu, 2024-11-28  In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became hundreds of times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically more than 100 times brighter than our Sun. However, unlike a

Massive Stars Born from Violent Cosmic Collapse

Mon, 2024-11-18  Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope reveal new process of star formation, challenging existing models.

Jing Wang Appointed as the Newest Science Editor for the AAS Journals

Thu, 2024-11-14  Jing Wang, Associate Professor at Peking University, was appointed as the newest Science Editor for the AAS Journals, which includes the flagship Astrophysical Journal. In this new role, Wang will accept or reject submissions to the AAS Journal using an evalua

KIAA welcomes Dr. Jinyi Shangguan (上官晋沂) as a new faculty member

Thu, 2024-10-17  KIAA welcomes Dr. Jinyi Shangguan as a new faculty member. Dr. Shangguan is a leading scientist in high-resolution observations of black holes, with specific interests in the structures around black holes and how the black holes co-evolve with their host gala

Multiway junction conditions applicable to multiple spacetimes glued along a common interface

Wed, 2024-10-16  For the first time, groundbreaking research spearheaded by Professor Li-Xin Li from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, alongside his Ph.D. student Jia-Yin Shen, and Associate Professor Cheng Peng from the Kavli Institute f

The divergent pathways to formation and quenching of galaxy populations

Mon, 2024-09-30  Beneath the apparent diversity and complexity in morphology, galaxies show underlying simplicity and have universally bimodal distributions of normalized specific angular momentum of stars, according to a study led by KIAA/PKU researchers Dr. Bitao Wang and Pr

The Brightest-Of-All-Time Gamma-Ray Burst: New Insights into the Relativistic Jet

Thu, 2024-09-26  Recently, a team of astrophysicists, including Dr. Haoxiang Lin and Prof. Zhuo Li from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University and the GECAM (The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor) t

Announcing the 2024 PKU International PhD Student Forum on the Frontiers of Modern Astronomy

Tue, 2024-09-24  December 5-10, 2024

FAST reveals simultaneous star and cloud formation in the Milky Way's "skeleton"

Wed, 2024-09-11  A research team led by Ke Wang at KIAA used the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to observe two typical filamentary giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the center of the Milky Way's spiral arms (also known as the "skeleton" structure),