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galaxies

Astronomers shed light on the nature of dark matter

22 August 2002

Astronomers from the University of Melbourne are challenging the current thinking about the nature of the universe’s dark matter by checking out its effect on light.

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Black Holes are Pink

1 August 1999

When black holes rip stars and gas clouds to pieces, the debris gets so hot that it shrouds the black hole with a brilliant blue-white light. Or so everyone thought, until we discovered pink quasars; black holes glowing with a pink light so intense that they are amongst the pinkest objects in the Universe.

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Hidden galaxies in the local universe

7 May 1998

Australian telescope finds missing galaxies on our doorstep. NSW astronomers have found new galaxies originally thought to be stars. They think there could be 150,000 of them in our neighbourhood.

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