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