<ul><li>The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory has released the first images from its partially built low-frequency telescope in Australia, known as SKA-Low.</li><li>The image contains 85 of the brightest known galaxies in that region, observed at 150MHz to 175 MHz, with each galaxy having a black hole at its center.</li><li>The SKA-Low telescope will have 131,072 two-metre-high antennas that will act as a single instrument, enabling observations of over 600,000 galaxies.</li><li>The SKA-Low and SKA-Mid telescopes, with a combined cost of £1bn, are expected to begin making science observations in 2028 and will help answer cosmology's most enigmatic questions.</li></ul>

‘Milestone’ as Square Kilometre Array Observatory releases its first low-frequency image of the cosmos

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