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Lurking at the centres of most galaxies are black holes that can weigh anywhere from one million to one billion times as much as the Sun. New research, published today in the Astrophysical Journal, shows that these black holes are growing at much larger rates than had previously been thought Read More …
Astronomers from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of the University of Central Lancashire are again participating at this year’s AstroFest, taking place February 8 & 9th at Kensington Town Hall. Our very own Brad Gibson will be presenting a talk in the Astrofest Conference at 10:35am on Saturday 9th February, entitled Read More …
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in collaboration with NASA, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and other partners* have captured the highest resolution images ever achieved of the Sun’s outer atmosphere (corona), the results of which are outlined this week in the journal Nature. NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Read More …
An international team of astronomers, led by academics from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has found the largest known structure in the universe. The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle travelling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross Read More …
The inaugural call for access to the UK’s High Performance Computing (HPC) facility, administered by STFC’s Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC) has resulted in unprecedented success for UCLan. The Principal Investigator for the Galactic Archaeology programme, Professor Brad Gibson, was thrilled by the award 7 million core hours to Read More …
Wednesday, 9th January from 19:30 to 22:00 The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of the University of Central Lancashire is pleased to participate in Stargazing Live by opening up Alston Observatory on Wednesday, 9th January from 19:30 to 22:00. As part of BBC Stargazing LIVE, we are offering this free event. Come Read More …
An astronomer from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is leading a global study to help find holes in dust clouds. Professor Derek Ward-Thompson has been joined by astronomers who use Europe’s Herschel Space Observatory and they are asking the public to help find holes in the dust clouds that Read More …
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of the University of Central Lancashire is pleased to announce the inaugural Christmas Lecture: Songs of the Stars, the Real Music of the Spheres: finding other Earths with the Kepler Space Mission by Professor Don Kurtz 10.30am on Wednesday 19th December We humans are visual creatures: Read More …
“Stars without Borders: Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies” was an international workshop held in Medana, Slovenia during May 21-24. This was the first international workshop ever on the emerging field of stellar migration in disk galaxies. It was chaired by Dr. Rok Roskar (University of Zurich) and Dr. Victor P. Read More …
By Professor Brad Gibson, Chair, Theoretical Astrophysics Jeremiah Horrocks Institute. Wednesday 21 November 2012, 7.00pm Greenbank Lecture Theatre, UCLan The formation of structure and galaxies throughout the Universe is the driving force behind billion-dollar technological developments such as the Square Kilometer Array, the James Webb Space Telescope, Extremely Large (ground-based) Read More …