Enlarge / Artist’s conception of a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) — a star being shredded by the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole. Material from the star spirals into a disk rotating around the black hole, and a jet of particles is ejected. There are decades of radio astronomy data in the archives of […]
Expand / / A aerial perspective of the Arecibo centre, revealing that the increasingly brittle cables behind the device platform, in addition to the gash generated when one of these cables neglected. Now the National Science Foundation announced that the famous Arecibo radio observatory will be closed down. Built to a hilltop from Puerto Rico, […]