Welcome to our Universe... the Gamma-Ray Universe! The CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory) will be the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. 

With more than 60 telescopes located in the northern and southern hemispheres, the CTAO will explore the very high-energy Universe within an unprecedented energy range (20 GeV – 300 TeV) and accuracy. The Observatory will seek to understand the impact of high-energy particles in the evolution of cosmic systems, to gain insight into the most extreme sources in the Universe, such as black holes, or to explore frontiers in physics, such as dark matter. 

The CTAO will be the first observatory of its kind to operate as an open, proposal-driven observatory providing public access to its high-level science data and software products, making the potential for discoveries limitless.  

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Stuart McMuldroch

Sebastien Poupar

Maurizio Miccolis

Tiziana Petrarolo

Daniela Virdis

Carlotta Sofia CARNIATO

David Núñez Herrera

Karl Tegel

Nadia Defrancesco

Daniele Pittimo

Eugenia Gatti

Michelangelo Bottura

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