Hamburg Observatory

Using the radio telescope LOFAR, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets. The research was recently published in Nature Astronomy.

The powerful jets shooting out of black holes will be the focus of a new German Research Foundation (DFG) research group, which includes two researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at Universität Hamburg. The research group has been granted €3.6 million in funding.

Two years ago, the eROSITA X-ray telescope was sent into space as part of a Russian-German collaboration to produce the most comprehensive map of the sky in X-ray light. The German eROSITA consortium, which includes Universität Hamburg, has now published the first data taken with the satellite-based X-ray telescope.