Rashid Sunyaev

Astrophysicists analyzed the data from three X-ray observatories to get the most detailed map of Perseus cluster.

Scientists from Russian consortium of SRG/eROSITA telescope carried out the most detailed study of W50 nebula with SS433 binary system. The paper presenting the results of the study was published in Astronomy&Astrophysics.

The European Astronomical Society and Frits Zwicky Foundation awarded the 2026 Fritz Zwicky Prize for Astrophysics & Cosmology to Prof. Academician Rashid Sunyaev for his pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background and the theory of disk accretion.

After 22.5 years of successful operation ESA's INTEGRAL international orbital observatory, launched in 2002 by Russia, completed its scientific mission.

The team of astrophysicists from IKI and other organizations used X-ray data collected by SRG/eROSITA telescope onboard Spektr-RG observatory to look into the hot interior of the S147/Spaghetti nebula and explain its unusual properties.

In 2024, IKI scientists and their colleagues completed the analysis of the data from the Milky Way central region deep survey and the first five all-sky surveys (2019–2022) made by Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope onboard Spektr-RG X-ray observatory.

New model developed by IKI astrophysicists and their colleagues and based on the data of SRG/eROSITA X-ray telescope, links the bright structure seen in our Galaxy to bubbles of hot gas that emerge from star-formation regions like smoke from the chimney.

On July 13, 2019, Proton rocket launcher with DM-03 booster blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying Russian X-ray observatory Spektr-RG. Today, we name some — but by no means the only — fascinating results of its work in these five years.