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  • More funding for OzGrav

    More funding for OzGrav

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    OzGrav Makes Waves With $35M To Understand the Universe The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Swinburne has been awarded a further $35 million in funding to continue their ground-breaking discoveries at the cutting edge of human understanding. The new funding will support OzGrav’s work investigating the fundamental nature…

  • Intermediate mass black hole in the centre of M31’s largest globular cluster

    Intermediate mass black hole in the centre of M31’s largest globular cluster

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    Very cool research on the detection of an intermediate-mass (approx. 100,000 times the mass of the Sun) black hole in the most massive Globular Cluster of Andromeda. This means that this cluster is a tidally stripped nucleus of a larger galaxy. This technique can be used to estimate the number of galaxies that have merged…