Journey through the Extreme Universe: Galactic Sources

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In the fourth stop of our "Journey through the Extreme Universe," Sofia Ventura will make us explore our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. We will learn about the different and exotic sources that our Galaxy hosts and we will understand how CTA is going to provide information about the most extreme events, such as supernova [...]

Journey through the Extreme Universe: Extragalactic Universe

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In the 5th webinar of the series, Jonathan Biteau (former convener of the CTA Extragalactic Working Group) will provide an overview of the most extreme sources that the CTA Observatory can detect outside of the Milky Way, out to a time when the Universe was still in its teenage years. He will discuss how CTA [...]

Journey through the Extreme Universe: Dark Matter

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On Wednesday, October 27 at 19:00 CEST, at the 6th stop of CTA's "Journey through the Extreme Universe: Dark Matter," we will learn how the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) can shed light on the nature of dark matter, which mounts up to 25% of the energy content of the Universe. We will discover the [...]

Journey through the Extreme Universe: Transients

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Transients are powerful cosmic phenomena with a rapid increase of activity that typically lasts a short amount of time and that sometimes are associated with the destruction of an astronomical source! In the 7th webinar of the series, Francesco Longo (former coordinator of the CTA science working group on transient sources) will explain why CTA [...]

Journey through the Extreme Universe: Multiwavelength & Multimessenger Universe

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In the 8th webinar of the series, Sera Markoff (Professor of Astrophysics at University of Amsterdam, and co-coordinator of the Event Horizon Telescope Multi-wavelength Science WG) will explain what the terms “multi-wavelength” and “multi-messenger” mean in the fields of astronomy and astroparticle physics. She will also give some examples of why we want to combine [...]