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ALMA Dives into Black Hole’s ‘Sphere of Influence’Fri, 2019-08-16New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) provide an unprecedented close-up view of a swirling disk of cold interstellar gas rotating around a supermassive black hole. This disk lies at the center of NGC 3258, a massive elliptical galaxy about 100 million light-years from Earth. Based on these observations, an international team that includes Luis Ho, Director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, has determined that this black hole weighs a staggering 2.25 billion solar masses, the most massive black hole measured with ALMA to date. |
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An Investigation Group Led by PKU Vice President Gang Tian Visited KIAAMon, 2019-07-15On July 12, 2019, an investigation meeting of PKU Astronomy was held at KIAA. The investigation group was led by PKU Vice President Gang Tian, consisting of 15 leaders from various university offices. |
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An Investigation Group Led by PKU Vice President Gang Tian Visited KIAAMon, 2019-07-15On July 12, 2019, an investigation meeting of PKU Astronomy was held at KIAA. The investigation group was led by PKU Vice President Gang Tian, consisting of 15 leaders from various university offices. |
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PKU Astronomy Held the Mid-term Self-evaluation of the Double First-rate Discipline ConstructionMon, 2019-07-15On July 11, 2019, the mid-term self-evaluation of the Double First-rate Discipline Construction of PKU Astronomy was held at KIAA. |
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3 Postdocs Won China Postdoctoral Science GrantTue, 2019-05-07Dohyeong Kim, Kai Wang and Ravi Joshi. |
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Former PhD Student at PKU awarded 2019 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in AstrophysicsThu, 2019-04-25 |
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An X-ray transient as New Signal of Neutron Star MergersWed, 2019-04-17A bright X-ray burst within a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth has been detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This event is likely to be the emission from a neutron-star-merger-produced magnetar – a new, heavier, highly magnetized neutron star. It is a totally new signal from neutron star binary mergers, which suggests that the merger of two neutron stars could result in a long lived neutron star rather than a black hole. |
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Discoveries by Dong and Jiang awarded as top-10 Achievements in Chinese Astronomy in 2018Fri, 2019-04-12 |
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Former PhD Student Feige Wang Awarded the 2019 Hubble FellowFri, 2019-04-12. |
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Vice President of the Kavli Foundation Kevin Moses visits KIAA, meets with Vice President of Peking University Dr....Fri, 2019-03-22 |
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