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Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today. The new work appears in a paper...
Professors Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez share Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, recognising seminal discoveries about the creation and location of black holes. Professor Sir Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford receives...
Professor John Barrow, FRS FRAS, 1952-2020
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