CEA News Archive

This includes items up to June 2023. Some of the older University links given here may no longer work. If you are looking for our current news pages then please go here: CEA News

• Durham scientists reveal nearly two million galaxies, quasars and stars in the distant Universe (June 2023)
• Ultramassive black hole discovered by Durham astronomers (March 2023)
• Durham graduate named new generation astronaut (November 2022)
• 12 Durham astronomers in top 100 UK rankings (July 2022)
• What does an astronomer actually do? (May 2022)
• Largest ever 3-D map of the universe created (January 2022)
• RAS Memoir for Sir Arnold Wolfendale (January 2022)
• Astronomers see white dwarf switch on and off (October 2021)
• Most detailed-ever images of galaxies revealed with LOFAR (August 2021)
• Breakthrough in supermassive black hole research (August 2021)
• Astronomers apply their skills to cancer research (June 2021)
• CEA Astronomer Awarded Oserving Time on the James Webb Space Telescope (May 2021)
• Durham quasar physicist Vicky takes Silver Medal in parliamentary scientific research competition (March 2021)
• Starry night or black holes? (February 2021)
• Galaxy mergers could limit star formation (January 2021)
• The dust content of distant star-forming galaxies (January 2021)
• Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale 1927-2020 (January 2021)
• 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)