Ancient Ball of Tightly-Packed Stars Captured in Unprecedented Detail
A global team of astronomers has created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster, an ancient ball of tightly-packed stars. The image…
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Astronomers Discover Mysterious Object in Our “Galactic Backyard” – Unlike Anything Seen Before
A 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…
Astronomers Capture Supermassive Black Hole Eruption Near Earth Spanning 16 Times the Full Moon in the Sky
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth. The emission is powered by…
Dense, Spinning, Dead Star Discovered by Outback Radio Telescope
Astronomers 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. The…
Astronomers See a “Space Jellyfish” – Stunning Cosmic Phenomenon
A radio telescope located in outback Western Australia has observed a cosmic phenomenon with a striking resemblance to a jellyfish. Published today in The Astrophysical…
First Black Hole Ever Detected – Cygnus X-1 – Is Much More Massive Than We Thought
New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects. Published today…
Testing Whether Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Is Right With a Record-Breaking Laser Link
Scientists from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most…
Astronomers Turn Up the Heavy Metal to Shed Light on Star Formation – “It’s Absolutely Mind-Blowing Stuff”
Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star…
Massive Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Completed: What Astronomers Found in Search of 10 Million Star Systems for Alien Technology
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky…
Discovery of Massive Galaxy Just 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang Has Astronomers Questioning Formation Models
Published recently in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion…
Cosmic Fast Radio Bursts Detect Universe’s “Missing Matter” – Solving a Decades-Old Mystery
Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter,’ long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until…
Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe Detected by Astronomers – “Really, Really Massive”
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive…
Remnants of Dead Stars Discovered in Spectacular New View of Milky Way
A radio telescope in the Western Australian outback has captured a spectacular new view of the center of the galaxy in which we live, the…
Astronomers Discover Massive Galaxy Surrounded by an Unexpected Halo of Tranquil Gas
Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas. The massive galaxy, which is about…