UP part of global research team to present the first image of Sagittarius-A

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. The announcement was made at simultaneous press conferences around the world. Professor Roger Deane, an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and Director for the Centre of Astrophysics at the University of Witwatersrand and Wits Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Iniyan Natarajan, were part of this global collaboration with the Event Horizon Telescope team. They are the only two African-based representatives who are part of the global team of more than 300 astronomers.

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RE.SEARCH is a digital magazine where we highlight some of our impactful research, knowledge and solutions.

In this issue, we highlight how the research we do today will help us navigate, survive and thrive in the future of our digital worlds... Read more

In this edition, we demonstrate how the research that we're doing today matters for a more optimistic future... Read more

In this issue we feature research which encourages us to think afresh to make today matter. We are spurred on by enquiry that is rooted in wanting to unpack real-life issues and solve problems for the betterment of our world in the future... Read more

In this edition we demonstrate how we make today matter by connecting the research we do to a creating a brighter future us all... Read more

This issue focuses on how we are navigating an ever-changing world with innovative green practices to energise, save and sustain our planet, people and future...Read more

This edition highlights how we make today matter in order to open up a new world and a better future...Read more

In this issue we demonstrate how we make today matter with research that has a positive impact on our future... Read more

In this edition, we make today matter by thinking above and beyond the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines so that our transdisciplinary research can design new futures for us all...Read more

This edition shows how creatively renewing our ways of thinking can help us to grow possibilities for a brighter future...Read more

The innovations highlighted in this edition show us that the knowledge we create today is a step forward to the future...Read more

This edition shows us how the research that we do on sustainability could be our present to the future...Read more