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For all those interested in radio astronomy, the mystery continues and deepens. Scientists have now discovered the most distant radio blast ever known to mankind. The blast came from a quasar or a quasi-stellar object (an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus) that is so far away that its light actually took 13 billion years to arrive at Earth.
This artist s concept shows the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered. It is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science
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A remote outback station about 800km north of Perth in Western Australia is one of the best places in the world to operate telescopes that listen for radio signals from space.
It’s the site of CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and is home to three telescopes (and soon a fourth when half of the Square Kilometre Array, the world’s largest radio telescope, is built there).
But it’s important these telescopes don’t pick up any other radio signals generated here on Earth that could interfere with their observations.
That’s why the observatory was set up with strict rules on what can and can’t be used on site.
Credit: Greg Rowbotham ICRAR UWA 2016
A new $1 million Federal Government grant to Curtin University will enable a major upgrade to the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), giving the giant radio telescope even greater power to read and process signals captured from distant outer space.
The grant is through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme (NCRIS) and administered by Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL) and will replace the aging correlator, or brains of the telescope, which has been used since the MWA began operating in 2012.
The MWA is a low-frequency radio telescope that scans the Earth s southern skies and consists of more than 4000 spider-like antennas spread across several kilometres within CSIRO s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in remote Western Australia.