A new study from a Tel Aviv University (TAU) researcher reveals that most massive stars formed in the early universe were born as binary systems, similar to the massive stars in our own galaxy. The research team says that these findings provide the first strong evidence that massive binary stars were common in the early… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) shows that during the cosmic “dark ages,” dark matter formed dense clumps throughout the universe, which pulled in hydrogen gas and caused it to emit intense radio waves. The study demonstrates for the first time the insights that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to… Read More
An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University (TAU) astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black hole and is destroyed. But, surprisingly, this flare occurred about two years after a nearly identical flare named AT 2022dbl appeared at exactly the same location. This is the first confirmed case… Read More
Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel’s Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, and nine municipalities across Israel have launched into space Tevel 2, a constellation of nine research nanosatellites — the largest Israeli satellite constellation ever — from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The nanosatellites, each measuring 4x4x4.5 inches (10×10×11.3 centimeters), were designed and built… Read More
An international team of researchers, with the participation of researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) led by Professor (emeritus) Tsevi Mazeh of TAU’s Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered a star which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass and lies 1,500 light-years away from Earth…. Read More
The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) has announced that it will award its 2024 Distinguished Service Award to Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, Head of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and former chairman of the Israel Space Agency, for his “outstanding contribution to astronautics (space sciences)” in general and “to the advancement… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has predicted for the first time the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from a lunar-based detection of radio waves. The study’s findings show that the radio signals can be used for a novel test of the standard cosmological model and to determine the composition of the… Read More
The Center for Quantum Science and Technology at Tel Aviv University (TAU) has built the first ground station in Israel — and among the most advanced in the world — for tracking, sensing, hyperspectral imaging, and optical and quantum communication with satellites in orbit around the Earth. The station includes a satellite observatory dome with… Read More