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Hertfordshire researcher awarded Royal Society Research Fellowship
Dr James Geach from the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Astrophysics Research has been awarded a highly coveted University Research Fellowship (URF) from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.
04 Oct 2013 9:07am
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Seeing stars at Bayfordbury’s new season of 2013/14 open evenings
The new 2013/14 season of public open evenings at the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory starts on Friday 11 October 2013.
25 Sep 2013 4:49pm
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Prawn nebula and new stars seen in high resolution
A glowing jumble of clouds nicknamed the Prawn Nebula containing clumps of hot new-born stars is visible in a new, sharp image taken with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VLT Survey Telescope in Chile as part of a public survey led by University of Hertfordshire astronomers.
18 Sep 2013 11:52am
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New method of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes
In a letter to Nature, an international team of astronomers, including Marc Sarzi from the University of Hertfordshire, report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies. By measuring the speed with which carbon monoxide molecules orbit around such black holes, this new research opens the possibility of making these measurements in many more galaxies than ever before.
31 Jan 2013 4:31pm
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Revealing Quantum Flow
UK-based physicist Ole Steuernagel from the University of Hertfordshire, alongside Dimitris Kakofengitis and Georg Ritter, have found that a new powerful tool they call ‘Wigner flow’ is the quantum analogue of phase space flow.
07 Jan 2013 3:38pm