EPFL joins the giant radio telescope SKA for the Swiss community

© 2020 EPFL - The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the biggest radio telescope ever built. Thanks to this ambitious tool, some of the universe's greatest mysteries will be resolved. EPFL became a member of the SKA Organisation (SKAO) beginning of April 2020 and will coordinate the contributions to this project on behalf of the Swiss academic community. This is one of the biggest and most ambitious scientific tools of the XXI^st century. The Square Kilometre Array , or SKA, is an impressive radio telescope project, which will build an array of 130 15m-diameter dish antennas in South Africa and an array of 130'000 TV-like antennas in Western Australia in the coming years. Thanks to it, some of the Universe's greatest mysteries will be studied with a whole new level of precision. Along with thirteen countries officially involved, Switzerland is considering participating in this huge adventure.