Help find the location of newly discovered black holes in the LOFAR Radio Galaxy Zoo project
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 09:50
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists are asking for the public's help to find the origin of hundreds of thousands of galaxies that have been discovered by the largest radio telescope ever built: LOFAR. Where do these mysterious objects that extend for thousands of light-years come from? A new citizen science project, LOFAR Radio Galaxy Zoo, gives anyone with a computer the exciting possibility to join the quest to find out where the black holes at the center of these galaxies are located.