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Thu, 2025-02-20 Recently, researchers from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Astronomical Observatories, Yunnan Observatories, Peking University, Beijing NormalUniversityproposed that searching for high-velocity stars ejected from globular clusters due t
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Fri, 2025-02-07 An international team of researchers led by PKU PhD student Qinyue Fei has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away, reports a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal on 5 F
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Wed, 2025-01-08 On November 8, 2024, astronomers at Caltech's Palomar Observatory directed a brand-new spectrograph instrument, the Next Generation Palomar Spectrograph (NGPS), to capture data from a newfound supernova. The resulting spectrum from the erupting star was a deli
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Fri, 2024-12-27 This award recognizes PKU postdoctoral scholars whose research has significant scientific and academic value or demonstrates outstanding economic or social benefits.
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Tue, 2024-12-17 Prof. Wu Yuefang, an emeritus faculty of PKU astronomy, passed away peacefully on December 13 after a long illness. During her career, Prof. Wu made significant contributions to our understanding of star formation through her own research and through her stud
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Sun, 2024-12-08 The spinning of Sagittarius A* is vital to characterize the supermassive black hole and it is crucial in testing the “cosmic censorship conjecture” and “no hair theorem” of black hole spacetime in Einstein's general relativity. Previous studies have shown
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Fri, 2024-12-06 The Forum brought together more than 40 postdoctoral researchers from different institutions in China, providing them with the opportunity to present their work and engage in discussions and plan future collaboration.
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Thu, 2024-11-28 In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became hundreds of times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically more than 100 times brighter than our Sun. However, unlike a
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Mon, 2024-11-18 Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope reveal new process of star formation, challenging existing models.
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Thu, 2024-11-14 Jing Wang, Associate Professor at Peking University, was appointed as the newest Science Editor for the AAS Journals, which includes the flagship Astrophysical Journal. In this new role, Wang will accept or reject submissions to the AAS Journal using an evalua
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