Curtin researcher helps find largest supernova remnant by looking in right place
March 5, 2021An international team of researchers, using powerful new X-ray telescope eROSITA to conduct the first all-sky X-ray survey in 25 years, have detected the largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-rays, dubbed Hoinga.
Opening a 3D X-ray eye onto the Universe
May 1, 2020Astronomers at the UWA node of ICRAR have today signed an MOU with the German eROSITA team to join forces and combine their respective data to address some of the outstanding questions in astronomy today.
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
February 28, 2020Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang.
