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Artist's impression of the SKA, which will be made up of thousands of dishes that operate as one gigantic telescope

Masters of the universe

19 Jun 2015

The ‘world’s largest IT project’ — a system with the power of one hundred million home computers — may help to unravel many of the mysteries of our...

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Black hole trio holds promise for gravity wave hunt

25 Jun 2014

The discovery of three closely orbiting supermassive black holes in a galaxy more than four billion light years away could help astronomers in the...

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Work begins on world’s most powerful radio telescope

04 Nov 2013

This week, work begins on the next phase of development for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, with the University of Cambridge leading...

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