CEA in the News

• Galaxy structure with strong gravitational lensing (November 2019)
• NGC3717 Astronomy Picture of the Day by David Rosario (November 2019)
• Pristine gas in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies Survey (November 2019)
• Feeding Super Massive Black Holes at the Centre of Galaxies (October 2019)
• Revealing quasars' true colours (August 2019)
• FOCAS Starts Integral Field Spectroscopy (July 2019)
• Children and local artist create 'cosmic' art (June 2019)
• Sifting star-dust from the primordial Universe (June 2019)
• Star award for dark matter research (May 2019)
• Sharp Eyes on Cold Gas: ALMA observations of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2110 (April 2019)
• CEA Student Wins Video Prize (April 2019)
• World top six ranking for space science (February 2019)
• Blowin' In the Wind: How black hole winds travel (January 2019)
• Black holes shed light on expanding Universe (January 2019)
• World's Largest Digital Sky Survey Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever (January 2019)
• Cosmic hydrodynamics in action with MUSE (January 2019)
• Big Bang 'fossil' discovered (December 2018)
• Towards an informed quest for accretion disc winds in quasars: the intriguing case of Ton 28 (November 2018)
• Observable tests of self-interacting dark matter in galaxy clusters (November 2018)
• Link between the growth of luminous and dark matter in star-forming galaxies (November 2018)
• A fixed Hubble captures a rare lensed galaxy for Durham astronomers (October 2018)
• Tracing oxygen in the halos of distant galaxies with the Quasar and Galaxy Evolution Survey (October 2018)
• A measurement of the primordial helium abundance from the Intergalactic Medium (October 2018)
• Thousands of far-flung galaxies revealed (September 2018)
• Are AGN special? Durham hosts international workshop on Active Galactic Nuclei (July 2018)
• Hubble proves Einstein correct on galactic scales (June 2018)
• A machine-learning method for identifying multiwavelength counterparts of submillimeter galaxies (June 2018)
• CEA astronomers unravel blending and discover new galaxies with ALMA (June 2018)
• A cosmic dance 11.5 billion years ago: detection of dual Quasar and AGN pairing (June 2018)
• ALMA pinpoints submillimetre galaxies (May 2018)
• Distant starbursts are warmer than expected (May 2018)
• Quasar pairs trace the structure of the cosmic web (May 2018)
• New high-resolution ALMA data reveal the shapes and sizes of actively star-forming submillimetre galaxies (May 2018)
• Dark matter might not be interactive after all (April 2018)
• Durham astronomers discover two rare diamonds in the sky (April 2018)
• A new strong-lensing galaxy at a redshift of 0.066 (April 2018)
• Hubble space telescope captures image of most distant star ever seen (April 2018)
• CEA astronomers identify signatures of AGN feedback (March 2018)
• CEA Astronomers to lead a new large programme on ESO's VLT (January 2018)
• The Durham-Edinbugh eXtragalactic Workshop XIV (January 2018)
• Are spinning black holes louder? (November 2017)
• Atom bank and will.i.am visit Ogden Centre (November 2017)
• A 1% determination of the primordial deuterium abundance (November 2017)
• Michele Fumagalli awarded prestigious European Research Council grant (October 2017)
• Durham astronomers discover an extended hydroden nebula around a dense gas cloud (August 2017)
• National award recognises commitment to women in physics (July 2017)
• Little Cub gives astronomers rare chance to see galaxy demise (July 2017)
• CEA astronomers discover a supermassive black hole that is brighter than it should be! (July 2017)
• The Queen honours leading Durham University space scientist (June 2017)
• CEA's Mathilde Jauzac wins first prize in the 2017 Research Staff Awards, in recognition of her excellent and sustained contribution to the research at Durham University (May 2017)
• New faint X-ray burst may be a new type of event (April 2017) (see also the New York Times)
• Universe’s ultraviolet background could provide clues about missing galaxies (March 2017) (see also Newsweek and ScientificAmerican)
• Research finds formula for first supermassive black holes (March 2017)
• Spectacular light show celebrates new Ogden Centre (March 2017)
• Dark matter map (February 2017)

Announcements

• Dick Fong 1936-2017:

  It is with great sadness that we report the death of Dick Fong, who helped found the cosmology group here in Durham in the mid-1970s. Dick passed away peacefully on 4 January 2017.