ASTRONOMERS STUDY TWO MILLION LIGHT YEAR ‘EXTRAGALACTIC AFTERBURNER’
October 25, 2012Blasting over two million light years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet.
THE STARS COME OUT FOR WA SCIENCE AWARDS
October 12, 2012Scientists from ICRAR have been recognised for their part in bringing one of the world’s largest and most ambitious science projects to the State.
BLACK HOLE SURPRISE IN ANCIENT STAR CLUSTER
October 4, 2012Astronomers have made the unexpected discovery of two black holes inside an ancient cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
THE MILKY WAY NOW HAS A TWIN (OR TWO)
September 17, 2012Research presented today at the IAU General Assembly in Beijing has found the first group of galaxies that is just like ours, a rare sight in the local Universe.
ASTRONOMICAL SUPERCOMPUTERS OF THE FUTURE COULD HAVE INTEL INSIDE
September 17, 2012Last month researchers from Perth’s ICRAR joined global computing giant Intel in Germany at the launch of the new “many-core” processor called Xeon Phi.
WIGGLEZ CONFIRMS THE BIG PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
September 17, 2012New data from a recently completed galaxy survey was published last night by a PhD student from ICRAR.
