Supercomputer time to explore how black holes and jets have changed our Universe
April 23, 2020Astronomers from WA, Tasmania and the UK have been awarded 45 million units of supercomputing time to study the influence of supermassive black holes on their host galaxies.
Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance
January 31, 2020After almost 20 years of patient monitoring, an international team of astronomers have witnessed the very fabric of space-time being dragged around a rapidly-rotating exotic star known as a white dwarf.
Spin doctors: Astrophysicists find when galaxies rotate, size matters
November 18, 2019The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A team of astrophysicists analysed 1418 galaxies and found that small ones are likely to spin on a different axis to large ones.