'World class' observatory to close amid AUT cuts
New Zealand's only major radio observatory is to close by Christmas, in a move our astronomy society says will have a detrimental impact on our burgeonin
Stay updated with breaking news from Australian Long Baseline Array. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
New Zealand's only major radio observatory is to close by Christmas, in a move our astronomy society says will have a detrimental impact on our burgeonin
On Sept. 22, 2017, a ghostly particle ejected from a far distant supermassive black hole zipped down from the sky and through the ice of Antarctica at just below the speed of light, with an energy of some 300 trillion electron volts, nearly 50 times the energy delivered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the biggest particle accelerator on Earth. IceCube Neutrino Observatory The cosmic invader –a messenger from the depths of extragalactic space, carrying secrets from some of the most extreme physics in the universe– triggered a cacophony of code-red detectors in the IceCube Neutri...