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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.

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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.

Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a four-dimensional universe, say University of Waterloo researchers!