Cygnus Gamma-Ray "Cocoon" linked to Recent Supernova Remnant

First evidence of particle outflow from a young massive star cluster

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma 'fireballs' using the Super Proton…

Shotaro Abe Wins First Werner Hofmann Scientific Award

H.E.S.S. collaboration appointed Lars Mohrmann from the MPIK as new director

Another step towards the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory successfully completed

As part of the national prioritisation process, nine proposals were selected from 32 submissions.

The 3rd International Summit on the Future of Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay held at MPIK discussed strategy and roadmap for next-generation…

Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a…

On 7 January 2025, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure…

H.E.S.S. collaboration detects the most energetic cosmic-ray electrons and positrons ever observed

From 10-13th September, more than 70 scientists from 12 countries gathered at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) in Heidelberg to discuss…

From direct observations, we know that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains sources of cosmic rays with energies of up to several hundred…

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has honoured Prof. Marianne Lemoine-Goumard from the Universite de Bordeaux with the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel…

An international team of scientists has developed a novel way to experimentally produce pair plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening a new frontier in…

Dr. Laura Olivera-Nieto from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal and the Otto Hahn Award by the Max Planck…

For her PhD thesis on "Resolving particle acceleration and transport in the jets of the microquasar SS 433 with H.E.S.S. and HAWC" Dr. Laura…

How Gamma Rays Track the Velocity of the Galactic Microquasar SS 433’s Jets and Uncover Highly Efficient Particle Acceleration.

Our planet is bombarded with very energetic radiation from space and analyzing this radiation can help astronomers unveil some of the secrets space…

The "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from 6 September 2023 features a short film showing gamma astronomy with the H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia. Over…

The Astrophysical Plasma Theory group at MPIK demonstrated that supernova remnant shocks interacting with collective wind outflows of massive star…

On Dec 8th, a ‘FestKolloquium’ was held in honour of Werner Hofmann and Felix Aharonian, two giants in the field of very-high-energy astrophysics.…

With a ceremony on 18 October and an open day the following Sunday, the H.E.S.S. collaboration celebrated the 20th anniversary of the commissioning of…

Since more than 100 years, we know that cosmic rays – charged particles – are accelerated to extremely high energies in the Milky Way, our galaxy. And…

Formal request to establish the CTAO ERIC submitted

Last August marked the first opportunity to observe a nova outburst in very-high-energy gamma rays and to follow both its growth and subsequent fading…

Halos around pulsars in very-high-energy gamma rays provide decisive clues.

Researchers from the H.E.S.S. Collaboration succeeded to derive the intrinsic spectrum of the very-high-energy gamma-ray afterglow emission of a…

The analysis of observational data in gamma-ray astronomy requires specialised analysis methods and software to reach the highest possible sensitivity…

An international collaboration, co-led by the University of Oxford and University of Rochester together with the Astrophysical Plasma Theory group at…