Recently, a collaborative team from Yunnan University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Chile, among other domestic and international institutions, has revealed new observational evidence unraveling the mystery of massive star birth. The related findings have been published in th...
09 10, 2025
In our traditional view, black holes are usually thought to “reside” at the centers of galaxies. However, a recent study has discovered a wondering black hole in a dwarf galaxy about 230 million light-years away (redshift z = 0.017). Unlike the norm, this black hole is not located at the galactic center but is offset by nearly ...
09 06, 2025
Recently, the research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved two significant advances in the field of Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) research, providing more reliable support for the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves. The related findings have been published in th...
08 14, 2025
Recently, a research team led by scientists from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, in collaboration with researchers from Japan, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Chile, and Taiwan, China, utilized high-resolution observ...
08 06, 2025
The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a groundbreaking discovery: these binary black holes may not be "lonely wanderers" after all—there could be an even more mysterious "giant" lurking behind th...
08 01, 2025
This discovery provides valuable new insight into how atomic gas behaves and organizes itself in the quieter, outer parts of our galaxy. It also deepens our understanding of how gas might eventually feed into star-forming regions, and what role such distant clouds might play in the broader life cycle of matter in galaxies.
07 16, 2025
An international team of researchers from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University (KIAA, PKU), the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), and the University of Cologne (UoC), along with several collaborating institutions, has conducted the most sensitive, highest-resolution, and most complete surv...
05 19, 2025
An international research team led by Dr. Suinan Zhang from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the unique mechanisms governing star formation in the Central Molecular Zoneof the Milky Way.
03 27, 2025
A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs)—celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets.
02 27, 2025
