‘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.
Cosmic bursts unveil Universe’s missing matter
May 27, 2020Astronomers 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 now.
Astronomers see ‘cosmic ring of fire’, 11 billion years ago
May 26, 2020Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy – described as a “cosmic ring of fire” – as it existed 11 billion years ago.
