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An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that 1998 KY26 is just 11 m wide, almost three times smaller than previously thought, and is spinning once every 5 minutes, which is much faster than expected. The image above shows an updated size comparison between the asteroid and spacecraft.

Can spacecraft Hayabusa2 touchdown? New study reveals space mission’s target asteroid is tinier and faster than thought

Virgo

Ten years after the discovery, gravitational waves verify Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Area Theorem

Credit University of Surrey, Matt Orkney, Andrew Pontzen & Ethan Taylor

Simulations solve centuries-old cosmic mystery – and discover new class of ancient star systems

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Understanding medium effects in quarkonium transport using thermal correlators in pQCD

18 Sep

Seminar Understanding medium effects in quarkonium transport using thermal correlators in pQCD

Black hole dynamics in star clusters: Eccentric mergers and star-black hole binaries

19 Sep

Thesis Defence Black hole dynamics in star clusters: Eccentric mergers and star-black hole binaries

ICC Thesis | Transient sources with LST-1: study of novae, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts

23 Sep

Thesis Defence Transient sources with LST-1: study of novae, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts

Delta N formalism: non-linear evolution of scalar and tensor perturbations during inflation

23 Sep

Seminar Delta N formalism: non-linear evolution of scalar and tensor perturbations during inflation

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