ICRAR’s talented staff and students have published more than 1,000 papers in refereed journals since our launch in 2009, with the 999th to 1,002nd papers published at the same time in late November.

Daniel Ung, Masters student at ICRAR-Curtin University, has won an international engineering competition for use of the electromagnetic solving software package FEKO.

Two of ICRAR-UWA’s researchers have been recognised in this year’s prestigious Tall Poppy Awards, Dr Danail Obreschkow and Dr Ivy Wong.

An extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy, was thought to be the brightest supernova ever seen. But a group of astronomers now propose that the source was an even more extreme and very rare event — a rapidly spinning black hole ripping apart a passing star that came too close.

A telescope located deep in the West Australian outback has shown what the Universe would look like if human eyes could see radio waves. This stunning view of the sky was created using SKA Precursor the MWA. 

Scientists have created a detailed map of the Milky Way using two of the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescopes in Germany and Australia.