Scrutinising the bedrock of contemporary cosmology
The remarkable success of recent cosmology in pinpointing a consistent concordance model relies on several foundational assumptions, including homogeneity...
Smooth and clumpy dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are the most dark matter (DM)–dominated galaxies in the Universe, and as such, they provide excellent targets for testing a...
The ESO Extremely Large Telescope project is in the final stages of AIV. The bulk of the telescope and dome are erected on site and almost half the primary...
Stochastic excitation of the solar acoustic oscillations – inverting the near field
Oscillations of solar-like stars are thought to be stochastically excited, and following Lighthill, the primary excitation mechanism is often assumed to be...
The delicate interplay between accretion, ejection and magnetism in neutron stars X-ray binaries
Matter ejection, in the form of either winds or jets, is ubiquitous in accreting X-ray binaries. Although it is clear that accretion and ejection are profoundly...
The Emergence of Dwarf Galaxies, Star Clusters and Something In-between
Over the past five years, numerical simulations of galaxy formation have quietly passed a key milestone. The latest cosmological simulations are now able to...