ESO is delighted to announce the upcoming conference Illuminating the Active Universe: Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Messenger Insights into AGN. The conference will be held from in Garching on 14-17 September 2026, on the occasion of the retirement of Paolo Padovani (ESO). It will examine the evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei research from early work on unified schemes of radio-loud sources and BL Lac samples to recent developments in multi-wavelength surveys and multi-messenger observations.
"Illuminating the Active Universe: Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Messenger Insights into AGN", Garching bei München, 14-17 September 2026
Published: 17 Apr 2026
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) provide a unifying framework for studying black hole growth, relativistic jets, galaxy evolution, and high-energy particle acceleration across cosmic time. The scientific program will cover AGN evolution and black-hole mass demographics; unified schemes for radio-loud AGN; the physical and observational diversity of blazars; the origin of radio emission in both jetted and non-jetted systems; deep surveys; the role of star-forming galaxies and AGN in the cosmic X-ray and gamma-ray backgrounds; and the connection between accretion flows, jets, and large-scale outflows. The conference will also examine newer developments, including lepto-hadronic modeling, candidate neutrino-emitting AGN, and the multiwavelength identification of extreme particle accelerators.
The goal of the meeting is to synthesize multi-wavelength and multi-messenger insights into AGN within a coherent framework while recognizing the scientific contributions that have shaped this field.
Conference website: Illuminating the Active Universe: Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Messenger Insights into AGN
Important dates:
- Abstract Submission Opens: April 15, 2026
- Abstract Submission Deadline: June 12, 2026
- Conference Dates: September 14–17, 2026