Hunting black holes and atoms

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Editor’s note: Professor Matthew Bailes will lead Australia’s role in Breakthrough Listen, a new $135 million push to find alien life.

Professor Matthew Bailes, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) was recently awarded a prestigious Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to transform the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere into a machine that will attempt to count the number of atoms in the Universe. This is his story.

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