Uop Cosmology

How it was possible to arrive at this incredible image of a super-massive black hole in a far way galaxy such as M87? Find out by listening to the explanations of the scientists that did the job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

What has been seen by the Event Horizon Telescope?
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Amazing discovery: how they made it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrHL61cHA nA&feature=youtu.be
more videos at
... https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/…/as tronomers-capture-f…/
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Sad news for Astronomy:
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Sent to the Hubble Space Telescope community on behalf of Ethan Schreier and Harvey Tananbaum
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We are very sorry to report the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Riccardo Giacconi, on Sunday, 9 December. Some of us were very fortunate to work directly with Riccardo at various times over the past 60 years. But more importantly, a very large segment of the astronomy and astrophysics community have based their research on facilities which were conceived, built, and/or directed by Riccardo.
We all know he received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in X-ray astronomy. He progressively red-shifted the bandwidth of his accomplishments, becoming the first Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and being instrumental in making the Hubble Space Telescope a success, building the Very Large Telescope as Director General of ESO, and while president of Associated Universities Incorporated, expanding the Very Large Array and initiating the construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
Riccardo is survived by his wife Mirella, daughters Anna and Guia, and grandchildren Alexandra and Colburn. He was pre-deceased by his son Mark. The funeral will be private with immediate family only.
We know the scientific community will continue to appreciate and benefit from Riccardo’s extensive contributions.
Ethan Schreier and Harvey Tananbaum
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We're looking for maternity cover for our public engagement and outreach officer. More information can be found on the University of Portsmouth's website:
https://tinyurl.com/ybpnye36

ICG researchers have just made the most precise test of General Relativity outside our galaxy. Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, they tested how much space time is warped by the mass of an entire galaxy!
Lead author Dr Thomas Collett has written more about it how they did it and what it means for our understanding of the Universe here:
https://theconversation.com/how-we-proved -einstein-right-on…

Yesterday was the Technology Faculty, University of Portsmouth annual Research and Innovation conference. Several of our staff and PhD students attended to present their work and find out about research across the faculty.
A special congratulations to: Sam Lawrence who was runner-up in the poster competition. Ben Mawdsley who won the best short talk competition.... Chris Pattison who won the best faculty paper competition.
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https://home.cern/…/opera-presents-its- final-results-neutri…

We need your help! We have developed a new Zooniverse citizen science project, where we ask people like you to help reconstruct images of galaxies to help us astronomers better understand how they formed and continue to grow! Fancy having a go? Head to www.zooniverse.org/projects/tingard/galax y-builder to put in a contribution to real life science!

Have you ever thought of dancing a Cosmological topic? If you are between 11 and 16, now is your moment to shine! Either through attending a one day workshop or entering an on-line competition #dancingtheuniverse
http://www.icg.port.ac.uk/outreach-re…/ dancing-the-universe/
uopnews.port.ac.uk/…/young-people-invit ed-to-dance-the-uni…/

A short but powerful speech by Hawking for his 75th birthday

Sad News for ICG, for astrophysics and cosmology, and physics as a whole! Stephen Hawking was the second PhD student of Dennis Sciama (our building is named after him), following George Ellis, my supervisor and that of Roy Maartens, and was mentored by Roger Penrose. Together with Penrose, Hawking developed a new understanding of singularities in General Relativity: in essence, the generality and unavoidability of a Big Bang in any cosmology within General Relativity is due... to their theorems. With Ellis, Penrose, Martin Rees and other Sciama students, Hawking promoted a renaissance of General Relativity and its application in astrophysics. With Ellis Hawking wrote what became one of the most influential books on General Relativity, "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time". But the work that really promoted Hawking to stardom among physicists at large is his study of black hole evaporation, or simply Hawking evaporation, a phenomenon where he was the first to marry quantum mechanics and gravity, at least in this specific context. Hawking evaporation is today studied even in lab experiments, thanks to "analog gravity", the use of other physical systems, such as sound waves in a moving fluid, to model general relativity phenomena. Later, he became famous within the public at large with his book "A brief history of time". Hawking has been, and always will be, an inspiring scientist, not only for his imagination, but also for his resilience in pursuing a scientific career despite his illness.
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Come to Winchester Science Centre this weekend to explore the science of the night sky with us!

We're excited to be at Winchester Science Centre this weekend for Night Sky Live! Fun shows about colours in the night sky with Dr Chris Frohmaier and the chance to get hands on with the Universe through activities run by our staff and students!

Thanks to everyone who came to Stargazing yesterday 😁 We hope you had as much fun as we did, see you next year!
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