Binary dance: a white dwarf system explains mysterious radio pulses across the Milky Way
January 30, 2026At least one of the mysterious blinking radio signals first discovered at ICRAR in 2022 seems to come from a stellar corpse tightly orbiting an ancient star, accorrding to new research from PhD student Csanad Horvath at our Curtin University Media node.
Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population
June 28, 2016Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low-mass star and a black hole.
Astronomers smash cosmic records to see hydrogen in distant galaxy
June 2, 2016An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away—almost double the previous record.
