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Astronomers Discover Most Massive Neutron Star—or Least Massive Black Hole
Green Bank Telescope helps MeerKAT uncover a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars
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Massive Gas Clouds Escape Center of Milky Way
Green Bank Telescope Discovers Hundreds of Clouds Blasting into Interstellar Space
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Mystery of Star Formation Revealed by Hearts of Molecular Clouds
Data from the World’s Largest Radio Telescopes Holds Clues
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Astronomers Accidentally Discover Dark Primordial Galaxy
Could Be the Faintest Galaxy Found to Date
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Most sensitive search for intelligent life beyond our galaxy to date
Breakthrough Listen presents the most sensitive search for powerful signals beyond the MilkyWay
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New type of Fast Radio Burst discovered in Green Bank Telescope data
Eight ultra-fast bursts lasted only ten millionths of a second or less An international team of researchers have discovered radio pulses from the distant universe that last only millionths of a second. They found these microsecond bursts after a meticulous examination of archival data from the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope. It’s unclear how…
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Five Decades of Groundbreaking Millimeter Astronomy—From Discovering Molecules in Space to Imaging New Solar Systems
Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2023 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship to Dr. Paul A. Vanden Bout, Senior Scientist, Emeritus at NRAO. The Jansky Lectureship is an honor established by the trustees of AUI to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of radio astronomy.
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Astronomers find multiple microsecond-length fast radio bursts in GBT data