The Universe sings an intricate melody composed of gravitational waves, the cosmic echoes of cataclys- mic events. Yet it’s only in recent years that we have begun to listen to […]
When an unsuspecting star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole, the star can be ripped apart by the black hole's immense gravity. As the black hole messily feeds […]
Strange Nature of Time across the Universe - how does time work in Einstein’s cosmos Time. We never seem to have enough of it. Clocks tick reliably, one second at […]
Cosmology is in crisis. We know very little about dark energy and dark matter, two things that cosmologists believe are fundamental to the Universe and integral to the standard model […]
This meeting will be screening a Gresham College Lecture with Professor Chris Lintott During the fifty years since the launch of the Viking spacecraft to Mars, our view of […]