THE International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is a step closer to understanding how black holes can launch superfast narrow beams of ionized gas called ‘jets’, by identifying the exact moment of their formation.

A FREMANTLE business has completed the first building blocks of a revolutionary radio telescope that will allow researchers to visualise the beginnings of the universe.

DEVELOPMENT of the Murchison Wide-field Array (MWA) is underway with local industry building the first major pieces of a revolutionary new radio telescope in Western Australia.

LAST month’s international SKA-low workshop held in Perth focused on the challenges of detecting low-frequency radio waves emitted from objects throughout the universe.

FOR the groundbreaking discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, Australian astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt has been named a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics this week.

THE Australian Research Council (ARC) has recently confirmed the funding of the Australian National Time and Frequency Network’s trial (NTFN) by awarding $600k to a consortium led by UWA to address the issue of telescope synchronisation.