Milky Way ties with neighbour in galactic arms race
February 15, 2018Astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way.
Galaxy Murder Mystery
January 17, 2017It’s the big astrophysical whodunnit. Across the Universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what’s killing them? New research published today by a global team of researchers, based at ICRAR, seeks to answer that question.
Dead galaxies in Coma Cluster may be packed with dark matter
July 20, 2015Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.