Press releases

2025
JIVE: New in Nature Astronomy and MNRAS Letters: Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA): Astronomen ‘fotograferen’ een mysterieus donker object in het verre heelal
SARAO/NRF: Astronomers ‘image’ a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
MediaINAF: Arco gravitazionale rivela un elusivo corpo celeste
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften: Mysterious dark object in space: scientists detect the lowest mass dark object currently measured
UC Davis Astronomers Find Mystery Dark Object in Distant Universe
NRAO: Astronomers Detect Lowest Mass Dark Object Yet in Distant Universe

MEDIA-INAF: Un milione e 200mila euro al progetto DARKER
ANSA: Dal Mur 1,2 milioni di euro per esplorare l’universo oscuro

2021
Center for astrophyisics (Harvard & Smithsonian): X-Ray Magnifying Glass" Enhances View of Distant Black Holes
MEDIA-INAF: Così vicini, così lontani: due buchi neri a raggi X
NSF research news: Glimpse of a blazar in the early Universe

2020
NRAO image release: A blazar in the early Universe
MEDIA-INAF: Ritratto del blazar più lontano che c'è
NEW SCIENTIST: Black hole from the early Universe is blasting us with a powerful jet
LE SCIENZE (Italian edition of Scientific American): Scoprirne uno per contarne cento: ecco il blazar più lontano finora osservato
LBT NEWS: Where there’s one, there’s one hundred more
MEDIA-INAF: Un blazar da record

2018
EVN newsletter: Gravitationally-lensed radio arcs observed with global VLBI
NRAO picture of the week: VLBI Network of Telescopes Bring Astronomers Closer to Understanding Dark Matter
ASTRON: New images from a super-telescope bring astronomers a step closer to understanding dark matter
JIVE: New images from a super-telescope bring astronomers a step closer to understanding dark matter
University of Groningen: Super-telescope bring astronomers closer to understanding dark matter
MEDIA-INAF: Caccia con l’arco alla materia oscura
eMERLIN news: New images from a super-telescope bring astronomers a step closer to understanding dark matter
CASA newsletter: VLBA observations of a lensed blazar meet the new CASA VLBI tools

Webinars and videos

2021 - Media INAF video: Lontani buchi neri sotto la lente in raggi X
2020 - EVN online seminar: Using strong lensing to zoom-in on high redshift galaxies
2020 - Seminar at University of Bologna: The parsec scales of AGN as seen using strong lensing and VLBI

Podcasts

2023 - Guest of an episode of the Nature podcast, based on this invited "News and views" article.
2022 - Guest of an episode of the Chelonia Applied Science podcast ran by the journalist Gabriella Bernardi.