black holes

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Australian women scientists

6 March 2009

Marking International Women’s Day, five of the world’s women leaders in science each received the $US100,000 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science at a ceremony in Paris.
The five laureates have diverse interests – from light-based cancer therapy to the life of stars. There are no Australian recipients this year.
In Australia, L’Oréal provides $20,000 fellowships for [...]

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School girls join study to understand black holes and the birth of stars

28 August 2007

Black holes are some of the most bizarre objects in the universe. They can have as much mass as a billion stars combined. How did they form and how did they get so big? “What are they doing to the galaxies in which they live?” asks Dr Ilana Feain of the CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National [...]

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