Welcome to the homepage of the Astrophysics & Cosmology Research Unit (ACRU), part of the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science and the School of Chemistry & Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Our research interests currently include both theoretical and observational cosmology, extragalactic astronomy, and modelling of compact objects using general relativity.

ACRU members are involved in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope project, the XMM Cluster Survey, and radio surveys due to be carried out with MeerKAT. ACRU will be part of the South African consortium participating in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project.