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Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars. The international team, co-led by the University of Cambridge, used Webb to observe a galaxy roughly the size of the Milky Way in the early universe...

The Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, is offering one or more Kavli Institute Fellowships or Senior Fellowships in the areas of Cosmology and Astrophysics. These are prestigious independent research fellowships, for a fixed term of three-years in the first instance, with the possibility of two further years (...

KICC Faculty member Sandro Tacchella was excited to have been part of a special BBC The Sky at Night episode on the first two years of science with the James Webb Space Telescope . In this, he talks about the most distant galaxies in the early Universe. You can catch up with this episode now on BBC iPlayer .

From a vantage point high in the Chilean Andes, cosmologists with the Simons Observatory have begun searching for evidence of what happened in the minuscule fraction of a second that followed the Big Bang. The observatory, which just completed its main construction phase, will make some of the most precise measurements...