The missing piece
The recent observation of a hypernova solved the age old mystery involving the death of massive stars. Stars more massive than the sun...
Elusive neutrinos from distant blazar captured at the south pole
Nature holds the key to unsolved mysteries that could, once revealed, allow us to push the limits beyond our current understanding of...
Superfast jets emerge from star mergers
On 17 August 2017, an event in a galaxy 130 Million light years away changed the way we look at astronomy forever. As we step into the...
Pulsars: Cosmic labs for extreme science
What would happen if we squeezed the entire sun to the size of a lemon? That's the kind of strange object that nature presents in the...
Discovering the beauty and charm of the cosmos
Anticipated, but elusive until now: the LHCb experiment this week announced the discovery of a new particle, the so-called Ξcc++. A...
The hyperon puzzle
Just when scientists were starting to believe that our conceptions of dense matter are solid, came the discovery of two massive neutron...
What's all this noise about Gravitational Waves?
Curious about why the detection of gravitational waves has created an uproar in the scientific community? Read on to find out why. Ever...
Double (Pulsar) Trouble
The discovery of a binary of two pulsars orbiting each other was a revolutionary finding, that opened up a fantastic opportunity to...
Are neutron stars superconductors?
In 2011, came a stunning astrophysical discovery, that changed the way how scientists look at the interior of neutron stars. Astronomers...
