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- Astronomers find 49 galaxies in under three hours https://www.icrar.org/49galaxies/ 10 comments
- Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before https://www.icrar.org/repeating-transient/ 90 comments
- Biggest explosion ever documented in the universe [pdf] https://www.icrar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2002.01291.pdf 11 comments
- Astronomers detect most distant megamaser https://www.icrar.org/megamaser/ 2 comments space
- Astronomers detect galactic space laser https://www.icrar.org/megamaser/ 2 comments astronomy
- Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky. As the black hole feeds on in-falling gas, it ejects material at near light-speed, causing ‘radio bubbles’ to grow over hundreds of millions of years. https://www.icrar.org/centaurus/ 35 comments science
- Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth. When viewed from Earth, the eruption from Centaurus A now extends eight degrees across the sky—the length of 16 full Moons laid side by side. https://www.icrar.org/centaurus/ 13 comments space
- Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky. As the black hole feeds on in-falling gas, it ejects material at near light-speed, causing ‘radio bubbles’ to grow over hundreds of millions of years. https://www.icrar.org/centaurus/ 3 comments science
- A radio telescope located in outback Western Australia has observed a cosmic phenomenon with a striking resemblance to a jellyfish. Scientists in Perth, said the team observed the cluster for 12 hours at five radio frequencies between 87.5 and 215.5 megahertz. https://www.icrar.org/jellyfish/ 15 comments science
- Scientists have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away. It released five times more energy than the previous record holder. https://www.icrar.org/kaboom/ 143 comments science
- Australian researchers using a CSIRO radio telescope in Western Australia have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’. Scientists don’t know what causes them but it must involve incredible energy—equivalent to the amount released by the Sun in 80 years. https://www.icrar.org/bursts/ 2 comments space
- Scientists Discover Hidden Galaxies Behind The Milky Way: "Despite being just 250 million light years from Earth--very close in astronomical terms--the new galaxies had been hidden from view until now by our own galaxy, the Milky Way." http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/media-releases/hidden-galaxies 49 comments worldnews
- Scientists discover hidden galaxies behind the Milky Way: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/media-releases/hidden-galaxies 3 comments science
- Scientists measure Slow Death of the Universe http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/media-releases/the-universe-is-dying2 3 comments science
- A new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought. http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/media-releases/dark-matter-half-what-we-thought,-say-scientists 2 comments science
- Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times faster than previously thought possible: Known as P13, it lies on the outskirts of the galaxy NGC7793 and is ingesting a weight equivalent to 100 billion billion hot dogs every minute http://www.icrar.org/home/hungry-black-hole 13 comments science
- Hungry black hole eats faster than thought possible: Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times faster than previously thought possible http://www.icrar.org/home/hungry-black-hole 3 comments space
- WA Government invests $26M in Astronomy and the Square Kilometre Array http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/wa-government-invests-$26m-in-astronomy-and-the-square-kilometre-array/ 58 comments space