A team of Canadian, American, and German scientists announced construction will soon begin on the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-p).
Astronomers have discovered that powerful radio jets from a supermassive black hole – which normally suppress star formation – are actually stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy’s halo, proving the existence of a powerful feedback mechanism that potentially fuels future star birth.
Waterloo astrophysicist makes international news exploring the puzzle at the heart of the Big Bang.
Waterloo Astrophysicist Avery Broderick and PhD student Mansour Karami, along with colleagues from the United States and Iran, have developed a method that will shine a light on the elusive nature of black holes.
University of Waterloo astrophysicist Brian McNamara, spoke with both CBC News and Radio Canada International’s Marc Montgomery about his involvement with ASTRO-H, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) flagship space-based x-ray astronomy observatory
Waterloo's astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi (left) and Perimeter Institute post-doctoral fellow Elliot Nelson have won third place in the 2015 Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition.
For the first time, astronomers have detected evidence for black hole-scale magnetic fields near the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. Their finding helps validate the theory of how black holes grow.
University of Waterloo Professor Brian McNamara along with two Canadian astronomers will be part of the science working group directing ASTRO-H, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) newest flagship x-ray astronomy observatory.
Neil Turok, adjunct faculty for the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada.