Preparations complete in Western Australia for construction of world’s largest telescope
June 10, 2020Following seven years of design and prototyping work, the Curtin University node of ICRAR has completed its preparations for the construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Western Australia.
Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video
June 2, 2020Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. This flare-up was captured in a new…
Cosmic bursts unveil Universe’s missing matter
May 27, 2020Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter’, long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until now.
Astronomers see ‘cosmic ring of fire’, 11 billion years ago
May 26, 2020Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy – described as a “cosmic ring of fire” – as it existed 11 billion years ago.
Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin
May 21, 2020Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.
Opening a 3D X-ray eye onto the Universe
May 1, 2020Astronomers at the UWA node of ICRAR have today signed an MOU with the German eROSITA team to join forces and combine their respective data to address some of the outstanding questions in astronomy today.
