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Read more at: Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births

Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births

20 July 2021

m101_pinwheel_galaxy_hst.jpeg Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state of the art simulations to back up results from a large sky survey, the researchers resolve a 20-year long debate on the formation of stars...

Read more at: Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang

Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang

25 June 2021

still_from_video.png Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Cambridge and UCL. The study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that...

Read more at: Newton-Kavli Fellow Sunny Vagnozzi jointly awarded the “Alfredo di Braccio” Prize by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Lincean Academy)
Dr Sunny Vagnozzi

Newton-Kavli Fellow Sunny Vagnozzi jointly awarded the “Alfredo di Braccio” Prize by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Lincean Academy)

18 June 2021

Newton-Kavli Fellow Sunny Vagnozzi has been jointly awarded the “Alfredo di Braccio” Prize by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ( Lincean Academy ), in recognition of his important contributions to the field at the intersection of Cosmology, Astrophysics and Particle Physics. This prize is awarded every year to a young...

Read more at: Cambridge researchers contribute to Human Capital Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy

Cambridge researchers contribute to Human Capital Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy

14 June 2021

winter_school_2021_web.png The 2021 African Radio Interferometry Winter School , a series of free online workshops presented by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in collaboration with the Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology in Cambridge / REACH project and the Radio Astronomy...

Read more at: Olivier Chesneau Prize 2021 Awarded to Mathias Nowak

Olivier Chesneau Prize 2021 Awarded to Mathias Nowak

11 June 2021

The 2021 Olivier Chesneau Prize has been awarded to KICC researcher Mathias Nowak for his doctoral work entitled: "The 2017 conjunction of Beta Pictoris b: the Life and Death of PicSat, followed by a VLTI/GRAVITY observation of the re-emergence". Dr Nowak successfully defended his thesis in 2019 at the Observatoire de...

Read more at: Cavendish Student joining KICC with grant from innovative Institute of Physics Research-scholarships fund
Ayngaran Thavanesan

Cavendish Student joining KICC with grant from innovative Institute of Physics Research-scholarships fund

7 June 2021

Ayngaran Thavanesan, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge has been awarded one of this year ’ s prestigious grants from the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund. Ayngaran will be completing his PhD in theoretical cosmology at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology (KICC), which brings together Cavendish Astrophysics...

Read more at: KICC hosts Distorted Astrophysical Discs 2021

KICC hosts Distorted Astrophysical Discs 2021

17 May 2021

This week we are delighted to be hosting over 200 participants at DAD2021, the ‘Distorted Astrophysical Discs’ online workshop. Recent high-resolution observations of nearly-Keplerian discs in a variety of astrophysical systems – protoplanetary discs, discs around compact objects, discs within and around binaries - have...

Read more at: Cambridge Festival 2021

Cambridge Festival 2021

16 March 2021

The first ever all-online Cambridge Festival starts next week! We have a wide range of astronomical talks and activities coming up for you, including a children's lecture about how the planets got their names, "Black Hole Wars" (a five-episode saga all about Black Holes!), fun physics experiments for your kitchen, a guide...

Read more at: Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo awarded STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship
Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo

Dr Eloy de Lera Acedo awarded STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship

15 March 2021

Dr de Lera Acedo from Cavendish Astrophysics and the Kavli Institute of Cosmology in Cambridge has been awarded a prestigious STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (STFC ERF). Dr de Lera Acedo’s research focuses on the study of the early epochs of our Universe via observations of the hyperfine 21-cm line from primordial...

Read more at: Inspiration from Cambridge Astro Women

Inspiration from Cambridge Astro Women

8 March 2021

The ‘Inspiration from Cambridge Astro Women’ page was put together in celebration of International Women’s Day 2021. This page features profiles of the many wonderful women we have working in our Cambridge Astronomy departments, including advice, motivational quotes, personal inspiration and role models. iwd2021.jpg bonsor...

 

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