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The discovery of 49 new galaxies in a few hours, announced earlier this year, was the latest testament to the value of South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Six years after its inauguration, it is finally ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has performed observations of a galaxy cluster designated SPT-CLJ2337−5942. The observational campaign revealed the presence of ...

More than 100 researchers and students from South Africa and around the world are meeting this week to share plans to use the MeerKAT radio telescope. The MeerKAT Science Workshop will be held at the ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, an international team of astronomers have detected 30 new radio transient pulsars as part of the Meer(more) TRAnsients and Pulsars (MeerTRAP) project. The discovery was ...

The mean optical and radio flux densities of our sample of radio variables, atop an underlying distribution of astrophysical classes (Stewart et al. 2018). Black crosses denote counterparts within the ...

With data collected through the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, astronomers have identified many active galactic nuclei (AGN), which are active supermassive black holes at the centre of ...

A nearby dwarf star's emitted radio flares were detected by the advanced MeerKAT radio telescope, a space tech that is located in the Northern Cape of South Africa. This Chandra X-ray image released ...

A neutron star manifested among researchers, and it is one that is bizarre for it brings a faint signal that is slow compared to other space objects that are of the same category. It is significantly ...

The 64th and final foundation for the MeerKAT telescope antenna was poured yesterday (Tuesday, February 11th, 2014) at South Africa’s SKA site in the Karoo. Close to 5,000 cubic meters of concrete and ...

The two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope. In the background is the sky as seen in optical light. Overlaid in red is the radio light from the enormous radio galaxies, as seen by ...