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MeerKAT: The South African radio telescope that's transformed our understanding of the cosmos
In one project, MeerKAT was used to observe the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This allowed our team to see for the first time magnetic filaments that surround the supermassive black hole at ...
'Ghosts of the radio universe': Astronomers have discovered a slew of faint circular objects
Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.