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.
Slow-spinning radio star breaks all the rules
June 6, 2024Australian scientists from the University of Sydney, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and ICRAR, have detected what is likely a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured.
Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
January 27, 2022A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars—with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.
