Polarised Shockwaves shake the Universe’s Cosmic Web
February 16, 2023ICRAR researchers discover tantalising evidence of magnetic fields in the Universe’s largest cosmic structures. The cosmic web is how the Universe looks at its largest…
On the march toward nanohertz gravitational waves using millisecond pulsars
June 28, 2022Dilpreet Kaur, a PhD candidate at ICRAR-Curtin, has recently used telescopes in Australia and India to conduct research relating to detecting gravitational waves using an array of pulsars.
Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
January 27, 2022A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars—with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.