‘Beyond what’s possible’: new JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxies
February 15, 2024This early galaxy has too many stars for the amount of dark matter around at the time, finds new research published today in Nature. The study, led by Swinburne University, relied on dark matter modelling from ICRAR's A/Prof Claudia Lagos.
Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
October 6, 2020Astronomers 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 formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.
Galaxy surrounded by a halo of tranquil gas
September 27, 2019Using a Fast radio Burst, astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas.
