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M87* One Year Later: Proof of a persistent black hole shadow

webfull — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:49:01 +0000

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at �㽶��Ƶ, has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018. With the participation of the newly commissioned Greenland Telescope and a dramatically improved recording rate across the array, the 2018 observations give us a view of the source independent from the first observations in 2017.

Published: 19 January 2024

Doubling the number of sources of repeating fast radio bursts

webfull — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:46:18 +0000

Astronomers from �㽶��Ƶ are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.

Published: 26 April 2023

To infinity and beyond: $26 million to propel space research at �㽶��Ƶ and Université de Montréal to the outer limits

webfull — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:02:43 +0000

The McGill Space Institute (MSI) and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal are at the forefront of the exhilarating pace of space research, helping to advance our knowledge of extrasolar planets, fast radio bursts, the dark universe, and other extraterrestrial mysteries. Now their stellar work and efforts to recruit top students and researchers are getting a huge boost thanks to extraordinary gifts to �㽶��Ƶ and the Université de Montréal from the Trottier Family Foundation.

Published: 21 November 2022