CEA in the News
- Analysis of the metal content in distant star-forming galaxies (Nov 2020)
- CEA astronomer awarded Future Leaders Fellowship (Oct 2020)
- Invisible galaxies: understanding what Hubble Space Telescope can’t see (Oct 2020)
- Metals in the haloes around galaxies in the MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies Survey (Oct 2020)
- A link to the past: connecting local elliptical galaxies and high-redshift starbursts (Sept 2020)
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Monster Black Holes Found in Nearby Galaxies (July 2020)
- Black hole’s heart still beating (June 2020)
- Enhanced compact AGN radio emission in red quasars (April 2020)
- Triple Rollover: a third lensed source for the Jackpot system (April 2020)
- Studying the most luminous galaxies in the Universe (March 2020)
- Exploring the jungle with VLT-MUSE (January 2020)
- A limit on Planck-scale froth with ESPRESSO (January 2020)
- Towards a direct measurement of cosmic acceleration (December 2019)
- Disks spin faster - measurements of the morphology and dynamics of distant galaxies with KMOS (December 2019)
- 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)
Contact Details
Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy,Ogden Centre for Fundament Physics - West,
Department of Physics,
Durham University,
South Road,
Durham DH1 3LE
Tel: 44 (0)191 3343635
Latest News
Nov 2020:
* Analysis of the metal
content in distant
star-forming galaxies
Oct 2020:
* CEA astronomer
awarded Future
Leaders Fellowship
* Invisible galaxies
* Metals in the
haloes around galaxies
Sept 2020:
* Connecting local
elliptical galaxies and
high-redshift
starbursts
Conferences/Workshops

Durham-Edinburgh
eXtragalactic Workshop,
online Jan 6-7th 2021.

Astro-Statistics for
1st or 2nd year Phd
Students - online from
Jan 11th 2021.

Stellar Feedback and
Galaxy Evolution
Ascona, Switzerland
25-30 July 2021.

meeting has been
POSTPONED
due to CoVID-19