Western Australia is soon to discover whether it will host the world's most powerful telescope, which will look almost as far back into time as the Big Bang.

The director of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Telescope bid for Australia and New Zealand is Dr Brian Boyle. 

He says the SKA telescope will be used to address some of the most fundamental questions in astronomy.

“The telescope will shed light on the origin of dark matter and dark energy, testing the theories of Einstein and Hawking on the ultimate limits, and also searching for the very first stars in the universe, looking back over 15 billion years to the very first hundred million years of universe formation”.

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