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Read more at: Roberto Maiolino appointed Honorary Professor of University College London
Roberto Maiolino appointed Honorary Professor of University College London

Roberto Maiolino appointed Honorary Professor of University College London

2 December 2019

Roberto Maiolino, Director of the Kavli Institute, has been appointed Honorary Professor of University College London in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.


Read more at: Gas content and quenching of local galaxies

Gas content and quenching of local galaxies

21 November 2019

During galactic transition towards quiescence 'it is not only the gas reservoir of a galaxy which decreases but also the efficiency with which the gas is turned into stars' - suggests a new study led by KICC researchers.


Read more at: Detecting galaxy halo heating from accreting black holes

Detecting galaxy halo heating from accreting black holes

25 October 2019

Scientists at the Kavli Institute have identified hot gas around the most luminous quasar at an epoch when the universe was less than 4 billion years old.


Read more at: Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling
Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling

Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling

16 October 2019

“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge.


Read more at: A Reanalysis of Planck
A Reanalysis of Planck

A Reanalysis of Planck

14 October 2019

Members of KICC since its foundation and longstanding members of the Planck collaboration, Prof. George Efstathiou and Dr. Steven Gratton recently uploaded their detailed reanalysis of the Planck satellite Cosmic Microwave Background data to the arXiv preprint server.


Read more at: A triple merger in the early Universe
A triple merger in the early Universe

A triple merger in the early Universe

11 October 2019

As part of the multinational ALPINE collaboration, scientists at the Kavli Institute have discovered a system of three galaxies merging together when the universe was only 1.3 billion years old.


Read more at: Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of an exoplanet
 Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of an exoplanet

Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of an exoplanet

8 October 2019

Queloz jointly wins the 2019 Physics Nobel for his work on the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun.


Read more at: Greedy black holes in the early Universe generate galactic storms
Greedy black holes in the early Universe generate galactic storms

Greedy black holes in the early Universe generate galactic storms

27 September 2019

Scientists at the Kavli Institute, in collaboration with researchers at various institutes in Italy, have discovered that in the early Universe, at the time when the first stars and first galaxies formed, the first massive black holes became extremely greedy, by gobbling enormous amount of matter, and generated extremely...


Read more at: Oliver Friedrich awarded best PhD thesis award by the German Astronomical Society
Oliver Friedrich awarded best PhD thesis award by the German Astronomical Society

Oliver Friedrich awarded best PhD thesis award by the German Astronomical Society

25 September 2019

Newton-Kavli Junior Fellow Oliver Friedrich has been awarded the annual PhD thesis award by the German astronomical society (this year awarded to both Dr Friedrich and Dr Tim Lichtenberg) for his outstanding contributions studying the large scale structure of the Universe. In his thesis titled "Statistical Properties of...


Read more at: Dr Blake Sherwin awarded European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
Dr Blake Sherwin awarded European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

Dr Blake Sherwin awarded European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant

3 September 2019

KICC member and DAMTP Lecturer Dr Blake Sherwin has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most competitive types of grants for early career researchers in Europe. The ERC-funded project 'CMBLENS' will develop a variety of novel methods to analyse the gravitational lensing of the...