Hunting wormholes in a Soviet science city

• Autores: Katia Moskvitch
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2951, 2014, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The tiny science city of Pushchino, on the outskirts of Moscow, was founded in 1956 to house Russia's first radio astronomy research facility. Back then, Russian space science was riding high, with Sputnik about to start circling Earth and Yuri Gagarin's space flight still a top-secret mission. The telescopes on the ground appear decidedly old but still do amazing science. The veteran of the place, RT-22, was built in 1959. Despite its weathered looks, until recently it was the main receiver for signals from Spektr-R. For several months now, Spektr-R has been zooming in on objects such as supermassive black holes, gravitational beasts millions of times more massive than the sun and thought to reside at the center of every galaxy.