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NGC 4383
Space

The first high-resolution map of a massive explosion

Amit Malewar

A gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other.

galaxy
Space

Mysterious ancient galaxies unveiled: New JWST observations

Amit Malewar

Beyond what's possible!

new radio source
Space

The most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster

Amit Malewar

An ancient ball of tightly-packed stars.

composite image showing the magnetic fields of the cosmic web
Technology

Polarised shock waves shake the Universe’s cosmic web

Amit Malewar

Tantalising evidence of magnetic fields in the universe’s largest cosmic structures.

AI classifying galaxies
Space

Astronomers may have uncovered how galaxies change their shape

Amit Malewar

The study may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution.

Nkalakatha’s host galaxy
Space

Astronomers detect a powerful radio-wave laser

Amit Malewar

The first hydroxyl megamaser of its kind.

Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light-years away. At its heart lies a black hole with a mass of 55 million suns. This image shows the galaxy at radio wavelengths, revealing vast lobes of plasma that reach far beyond the visible galaxy, which occupies only a small patch at the centre of the image. The dots in the background are not stars, but radio galaxies much like Centaurus A, at far greater distances.
Space

Most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest black hole

Amit Malewar

The eruption now extends eight degrees across the sky.

A spiral galaxy named NGC 4051
Space

New technique to detect active black holes in the Universe

Amit Malewar

Astronomers just got better at finding bright black holes.

VERTICO
Space

Study solved the galaxy murder mystery

Amit Malewar

What's killing galaxies?

The power of CNNs
Space

Classifying tens of thousands of galaxies in just a few seconds

Amit Malewar

A task that usually takes months to accomplish.

composite image of the USS Jellyfish in Abell 2877
Space

Astronomers observed a space jellyfish

Amit Malewar

This radio jellyfish holds a world record of sorts.

Cut-out of the first SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey
Space

Scientists detected the largest supernova remnant ever

Amit Malewar

Scientists find the largest supernova remnant by looking in right place.

Smoking gun
Space

Scientists have uncovered a gigantic cosmic particle accelerator

Amit Malewar

The study offers evidence that neutrinos can be powerful natural particle accelerators.

ram-pressure stripping
Space

Large galaxies strip star-forming gases from their small satellite galaxies

Amit Malewar

These are the deepest observations and the largest sample of atomic and molecular gas in the local Universe.

Cygnus X-1 system
Space

First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought

Amit Malewar

The study questions astronomers what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects.

impression of galaxy
Space

A new way to study star formation in galaxies

Amit Malewar

Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation.

Astronomers did not found any signs of alien tech in 10 million star systems
Space

Astronomers did not found any signs of alien tech in 10 million star systems

Amit Malewar

The exploration was more broadly than any previous search for extraterrestrial life.

The FRB leaves its host galaxy as a bright burst of radio waves. Credit: ICRAR
Space

FRBs solved a decades-old mystery of missing matter

Amit Malewar

From measurements of the Big Bang, astronomers have an idea about how much matter there was at the beginning of the Universe. Its been...

The white dwarf-pulsar binary system PSR J1141-6545 discovered by the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
Space

The space-time being dragged around a rapidly-rotating exotic star

Amit Malewar

The effect is a consequence of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.

This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. Huge golden filaments indicate enormous magnetic fields, supernova remnants are visible as little spherical bubbles, and regions of massive star formation show up in blue. The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is hidden in the bright white region in the centre. Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team
Space

A spectacular new view of the center of the Milky Way galaxy

Amit Malewar

Outback telescope captures Milky Way center.

The milky way galaxy and our galactic centre by Dave Young (dcysurfer)
Space

Star formation may be halted by cold ionized hydrogen

Pranjal Malewar

For the first ever time, scientists have detected ionized hydrogen at the lowest frequency ever towards the center of our galaxy. The discovery emerged from...

Artist’s impression of CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope finding a fast radio burst and determining its precise location. The KECK, VLT and Gemini South optical telescopes joined ASKAP with follow-up observations to image the host galaxy. Credit: CSIRO/Dr Andrew Howells
Space

Astronomers make history in a split second

Amit Malewar

For the first ever time, astronomers have detected the exact location of a powerful one-off burst of cosmic radio waves using CSIRO’s new Australian...

Astronomers discovered two galaxy clusters about to collide
Space

Astronomers discovered two galaxy clusters about to collide

Amit Malewar

Clusters of galaxies are the largest known gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. At the point when clusters collide, they create merger shocks on...

Artist’s impression of V404 Cygni seen close up. The binary star system consists of a normal star in orbit with a black hole. Material from the star falls towards the black hole and spirals inwards in an accretion disk, with powerful jets being launched from the inner regions close to the black hole. Credit: ICRAR
Space

Black hole nine times larger than the sun is pulling in space and time

Amit Malewar

Recently, astronomers have detected fast - powerful, relativistic, swirling jets coming from a black hole that lies about 8000 light-years from Earth. The black...

An image of AstroQuest galaxy alongside how it looks in the AstroQuest platform once a citizen scientist has ‘helped’ the computer to identify what belongs to the main galaxy and what doesn’t. Credit: ICRAR/AstroQuest
Space

Volunteers want to help unlock the secrets of our universe

Amit Malewar

In a new citizen science project launched today—known as AstroQuest, scientists are appealing for public help to study images of galaxies and unravel the...

Fourteen radio galaxy predictions ClaRAN made during its scan of radio and infrared data. All predictions were made with a high ‘confidence’ level, shown as the number above the detection box. A confidence of 1.00 indicates ClaRAN is extremely confident both that the source detected is a radio galaxy jet system and that it has classified it correctly. Credit: Dr Chen Wu and Dr Ivy Wong, ICRAR/UWA.
Technology

Using AI to identify galaxies in deep space

Amit Malewar

Scientists at the ICRAR thought to use AI program called ClaRAN in order to identify faces on Facebook to identify galaxies in deep space. This AI...

Radio waves from our galaxy, the Milky Way, reflecting off the surface of the Moon and observed by the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope located in outback Western Australia. Credit: Dr Ben McKinley, Curtin University/ICRAR/ASTRO 3D. Moon image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.
Space

Moon helps reveal secrets of the Universe

Amit Malewar

A team of astronomers led by Dr Benjamin McKinley at Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the...

A red, green, blue composite image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (left) and Small Magellanic Cloud (right) made from radio wavelength observations taken at 123MHz, 181MHz and 227MHz. At these wavelengths, emission from cosmic rays and the hot gases belonging to the star forming regions and supernova remnants of the galaxy are visible. Credit: ICRAR.
Space

Telescope maps cosmic rays in large and small magellanic clouds

Amit Malewar

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been utilized to watch radiation from infinite beams in two neighboring cosmic systems, demonstrating zones of...

A ‘radio colour’ view of the sky above a ‘tile’ of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The Milky Way is visible as a band across the sky and the dots beyond are some of the 300,000 galaxies observed by the telescope for the GLEAM survey. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle frequencies and blue the highest frequencies. Credit: Radio image by Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team. MWA tile and landscape by Dr John Goldsmith / Celestial Visions.
Space

Astronomers collaborated to monitor space

Pranjal Malewar

Astronomers at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have collaborated with Adelaide company Silentium Defence to devise...

Blazars are a type of active galaxy with one one of its jets pointing toward us. In this artistic rendering, a blazar emits both neutrinos and gamma rays could be detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory as well as by other telescopes on Earth and in space. Credit: IceCube/NASA
Space

Scientists find evidence of far-distant neutrino source

Amit Malewar

Scientists at the University of Adelaide and Curtin University have detected a wellspring of high-energy particles called neutrinos: an enthusiastic cosmic system around 4...

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