Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky
December 23, 2021Astronomers have observed the nearest active supermassive black hole to Earth at radio wavelengths in unprecedented detail. The emission is powered by a central black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A, about 12 million light years away.
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
April 21, 2021Astronomers have discovered a pulsar—a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos—using a low-frequency radio telescope in outback Australia.
$64 million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time
April 16, 2021The federal government will invest $64.4 million to establish a centre in Perth to process and analyse data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope.
