‘Beyond what’s possible’: new JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxies
February 15, 2024This early galaxy has too many stars for the amount of dark matter around at the time, finds new research published today in Nature. The study, led by Swinburne University, relied on dark matter modelling from ICRAR's A/Prof Claudia Lagos.
Two ICRAR researchers recognised in Astronomical Society of Australia prizes
June 29, 2023The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) will honour Dr Nichole Barry of ICRAR/Curtin and ICRAR/UWA student William McDonald at its Annual Scientific Meeting at the…
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.
