Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe
October 20, 2023An eight-billion-year-old burst of energy has been discovered, demonstrating that we can detect and measure matter between galaxies. The discovery opens a path to using…
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FRB paper a prize winner
February 11, 2021A paper published in Science, & involving several ICRAR researchers, has won the prestigious AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize. Every year hundreds of ground-breaking research papers…
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Astronomers peer into the lair of a mysterious cosmic radio burster
January 11, 2018An international team of astronomers has used two of the world's largest radio telescopes to show that a mysterious source of radio bursts is in an astonishingly extreme and unusual environment.
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