Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe
Thursday, 17 May 2018
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Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our Sun every two days.

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A bright supermassive black hole. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
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Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe.

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ANU researchers discover 'singing' molecular cloud
Friday, 11 May 2018
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A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Crete in Greece has shed new light on the mystery of how our solar system formed.

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Photo by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre.
Thursday, 03 May 2018
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The Australian National University (ANU) is poised to play a key role to support a new national space agency and to help drive education, research and industry

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Astronomers witness death throes of a cocooned star
Tuesday, 27 Mar 2018
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Dr Brad Tucker from ANU has seen the death throes of a star cocooned inside a dense shell of gas and dust, which ended in a violent explosion.

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Tuesday, 27 Feb 2018
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Stars around our galaxy previously thought to be from merged dwarf galaxies are likely to have once been part of the Milky Way before being pulled away by an invading satellite galaxy

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Monday, 12 Feb 2018
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The Australian National University (ANU) has appointed astronomer Dr Chris Lidman as the first Director of the ANU Siding Spring Observatory.

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Karlie Noon
Monday, 12 Feb 2018
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Meet Karlie Noon, who is studying her Masters of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ANU.

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Friday, 02 Feb 2018
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A new international study involving ANU has found a plane of dwarf galaxies orbiting around Centaurus A in a discovery that challenges a popular theory about how dwarf galaxies are spread around the Universe.

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