Re-live the Durham 2015 Lumiere
Ross Ashton has just sent me the “official” video of the World Machine installation from Durham Lumiere 2015. If you missed out,…
Searching for the Origin of Everything
LDSS at the Las Campanas Observatory
It’s amazing. I’m at the Las Campanas Observatory, using the LDSS (low Dispersion Survey) spectrograph. A triumph of North East engineering,…
The World Machine at Lumiere
The World Machine is a daring new art work for Durham Lumiere 2015. Over the past year I’ve been putting together…
EAGLE goes for Reddit … ask us about the Cosmos
On Thursday 15th, the EAGLE team will be eating pizza and answering questions about cosmology…. we’re going live on Reddit…
EAGLE’s own website
The EAGLE project now has its own website. My two summer “interns” (Sam Bancroft and Josh Borrow) have done an amazing…
EAGLE takes off
The first EAGLE paper is now available on the astro-ph archive. It will tell you everything you wanted to know about…
Cosmic Own Goal
One of the very exciting things about the Eagle project is that it is possible to pick out interesting objects,…
EAGLE in the News
Images from our EAGLE simulations appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight program last night. Journalist Rebecca Morelle used them to explain…
The Medieval Multiverse
As part of the interdisciplinary Ordered Universe project we’ve just submitted a paper on the “Medieval Multiverse”. I hope you’re as fascinated as…
Angular momentum, black holes and the characteristic mass of galaxies
One of my PhD students, Yetli Rosas-Guevara, has just submitted a very exciting paper. In it, we discuss the important…