Spin doctors: Astrophysicists find when galaxies rotate, size matters
November 18, 2019The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A team of astrophysicists analysed 1418 galaxies and found that small ones are likely to spin on a different axis to large ones.
World’s fastest supercomputer processes huge data rates in preparation for mega-telescope project
October 22, 2019Scientists have processed 400 gigabytes of data a second as they tested data pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.
Galaxy surrounded by a halo of tranquil gas
September 27, 2019Using a Fast radio Burst, astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas.
Perth Observatory and Australia’s biggest community astronomy event win stellar award
August 14, 2019An astronomy festival that attracts more than 4000 people a year and WA’s oldest observatory have starred at the Premier’s Science Awards overnight.
Star formation may be halted by cold ionised hydrogen
July 9, 2019For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy.
Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into space
April 29, 2019Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’— powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space.
