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  • Light shed upon x-ray beams surrounding black holes

    Med hjälp av observationer av tvåstjärnesystemet Cygnus X-1 ökar bland annat kunskapen om den extrema omgivningen runt svarta hål. Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss.
    Published Jul 04, 2018

    New findings and enhanced knowledge about the environment surrounding black holes has been discovered by an international research team at KTH, led by Mark Pearce. The research has been carried out wi...

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  • PoGO+ the Telescope that didn’t give in

    The PoGO+ campaign team. Left to right: J-E. Strömberg (DST Control), N. Uchida (Hiroshima University), C. Lockowandt (SSC), H-G. Florén (Stockholm Uni), M. Pearce (Principal Investigator, KTH), V. Mikhalev (KTH), H. Takahashi (Hiroshima Uni), M. Chauvin (KTH), M. Friis (KTH), T. Kawano (Hiroshima Uni), M. Kiss (KTH), T-A. Stana (KTH).
    Published Jul 04, 2018

    After a failed attempt of getting the POgO+ telescope 40 km into space carried by a helium balloon twice the size of the Globe Arena in 2010, and an inability to make an attempt in 2011 due to weather...

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  • New Phenomenon Discovered in Nuclei

    Memebers of the Nuclear Physics division. From the left: Bo Cederwall and Ph:D students: Xiaoyu Liu, Wei Zhang, Aysegul Ertoprak, Farnaz Ghazi Moradi, Özge Aktas
    Published Jun 20, 2018

    Evidence for a new unexpected phase transition has been found by a collaboration of international research groups led by Bo Cederwall, Division Head of the Nuclear Physics division at the KTH Physics ...

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