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Tue, 2016-05-17 On May 9-10, 2016, the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
hosted the second annual Beijing-Nanjing Bilateral Astrophysics
Workshop.
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Mon, 2016-05-16 Astronomers from Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University, University of California, Irvine and other universities have derived a highly precise measurement of the mass of a black hole at the center of a nearby giant elliptica
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Tue, 2016-05-10 Chinese Postdoctoral Foundation has announced the awardees of the postdoctoral general grant this year. PKU (KIAA & DoA) takes 6 of the 11 postdoc general grants in the field of astronomy.
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Wed, 2016-04-13 The European Astronomical Society (EAS) has announced the awardees of its 2016 prizes. The 2016 MERAC Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Observational Astrophysics has been awarded to Yingjie Peng(彭影杰).
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Wed, 2016-03-23 With pleasure we announce the upcoming 2016 Beijing-Nanjing Bilateral Astrophysics Workshop.
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Fri, 2016-02-26 The discovery of the most luminous quasar with an ultramassive black hole in the distant Universe, made by a team led by Associate Director of KIAA Xue-Bing Wu, originally published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2015, has been selected as one of Top 10
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Thu, 2016-01-28 Astronomers had long thought that the old, dense swarms of stars known as globular clusters formed their millions of stars in bulk at around the same time, with each cluster's stars having very similar ages.
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Sat, 2016-01-23 The discovery of the most luminous quasar with an ultramassive black hole in the distant Universe, made by a team led by Associate Director of KIAA Xue-Bing Wu, originally published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2015, has been selected as one of the To
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Mon, 2016-01-18 The KIAA Governing Board held the first board meeting on January 16, 2016 at KIAA. In attendance were Jie Wang, Robert E. Williams, Luis C. Ho, Anthony N. Lasenby, Simon D. M. White, Xiaolin Chen, Miyoung Chun and Xuebing Wu.
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Fri, 2016-01-15 Stunned astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion about 200 times more powerful than a typical supernova—events which already rank amongst the mightiest outbursts in the universe—and more than twice as luminous as the previous record-holding supernova.
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