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.

Supercomputer time to explore how black holes and jets have changed our Universe
April 23, 2020Astronomers from WA, Tasmania and the UK have been awarded 45 million units of supercomputing time to study the influence of supermassive black holes on their host galaxies.

WA science and industry leaders put their heads together to search for the first stars and galaxies
March 24, 2020The team from ICRAR, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, and DUG used hundreds of hours of observations from the MWA radio telescope collected over five years.

Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
February 28, 2020Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang.

Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance
January 31, 2020After almost 20 years of patient monitoring, an international team of astronomers have witnessed the very fabric of space-time being dragged around a rapidly-rotating exotic star known as a white dwarf.

View the SKA in augmented reality
January 23, 2020The Square Kilometre Array is now available in augmented reality! We’ve been busy developing this interactive augmented reality with Quivervision, thanks to support from SKA…
