Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Curtin University
Jean-Pierre tries to understand the Universe by any means at his disposal.
He works at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University and is a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics.
He particularly likes working at the interface between observational and theoretical astrophysics, having come to the realisation that a good grasp of theory is necessary to understand your own observations, and that you need to be able to undertake your own observations to test your own theories.
Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos
May 29, 2020 14:09 pm UTC| Science
In the late 1990s, cosmologist made a prediction about much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with rest a mixture of dark matter and dark energy. But when...
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