The MeerKAT radio telescope has unlocked cosmic mysteries. It's fostered scientific collaboration. It is also nurturing local talent. MeerKAT, which is among South Africa's largest scientific ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope, astronomers have discovered a new odd radio circle that appears to be associated with an elliptical galaxy known as WISEA J021912.43–050501.8. The finding ...

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.

The two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope. In the background is the sky as seen in optical light. Overlaid in red is the radio light from the enormous radio galaxies ...

and the South African MeerKAT radio telescope, comprising 64 antennas. Both are continuously involved in performing surveys of the night sky, but ASKAP in particular is leading one called the ...

The MeerKAT team is awarded the Group Award of the Royal Astronomical Society for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region ...

This provides a way to keep the sensitivity and resolution of a large telescope, while building more cost-effective smaller dishes. See Fig 1 for a view of some of the dishes of the 64-dish MeerKAT ...

Radio astronomers can study emissions from gas giant planets, blasts from the hearts of galaxies, or even precisely ticking ...