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Distant supermassive black hole shows high velocity sign of over-eating
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/distant-supermassive-black-hole-high-velocity-over-eating-770
University of Leicester scientists describe how the capture of new matter - lasting a few days and corresponding to several Earth masses - formed a ring around the hole, before being partly swallowed by the hole, with excess matter ejected as a high velocity wind.
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Zeeko Ltd takes up cutting-edge research lab at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/zeeko-research-lab-space-park-leicester
Leader in ultra-precision polishing technology joins University of Leicester’s prestigious £100 million space research and innovation facility
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Room types
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/accommodation/room-types
Find out about the different room types in our halls, from twin bedrooms to one-bedroom flats, including information on adapted rooms for disabled students.
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The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/hoodie
Read the article "The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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About Arch-I-Scan
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan/about-arch-i-scan
Discover more about Arch-I-Scan Ceramic finewares are the most essential evidence for investigating the socio-cultural practices of eating and drinking across the Roman world and constitute some of the most extensive archaeological remains.
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Leicester praised in new book on science communications
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/fiona-fox-book
Award-winning work by the University of Leicester in improving science communications has been featured in a new book by Fiona Fox from the Science Media Centre.
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University of Leicester partners with The Audience Agency on innovative AI project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/audience-agency
The University of Leicester is working with mission-led charity The Audience Agency on an exciting new Artificial Intelligence project.
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University to mark founding legacy as living memorial
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/living-memorial
A major figure in the foundation of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College – which would later go on to become the University of Leicester – was local man Dr Astley Clarke. During the war, Astley was an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/antarctica-tectonics
The study was led by Dr Isabel Sauermilch, researcher at the University of Tasmania and Utrecht University, and shows that these events were much more closely linked than previously thought.
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Pioneering police detective David Baker awarded Honorary Degree
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/david-baker
The lead detective on the first criminal case to be solved using DNA fingerprinting has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Leicester at a ceremony today (Wednesday 19 January).