Telescopes team up to study giant galaxy
December 12, 2017Astronomers have used two Australian radio telescopes and several optical telescopes to study complex mechanisms that are fuelling jets of material blasting away from a black hole 55 million times more massive than the Sun.
Honey I shrunk… the globular cluster?
June 2, 2017New simulation work from ICRAR’s Dr Kenji Bekki has predicted that globular clusters, collections of hundreds of thousands of stars inside galaxies, used to be much larger.
Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy
March 28, 2017Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail.