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                    A giant black hole in the Milky Wayhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/ Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth. 
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                    Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Centuryhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/ Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces. 
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                    Theories of Risk, Crisis and Disastershttps://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn7631 Module code: MN7631 During the last forty years, risk has increasingly become of interest to social analysts and practitioners. Risk, however, is not a new problem. 
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                    Theories of Risk, Crisis and Disastershttps://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mk7605 Module code: MK7605 During the last forty years, risk has increasingly become of interest to social analysts and practitioners. Risk, however, is not a new problem. 
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                    Theories of Risk, Crisis and Disastershttps://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mk7605 Module code: MK7605 During the last forty years, risk has increasingly become of interest to social analysts and practitioners. Risk, however, is not a new problem. 
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                    Public lecture will see experts discuss how to police sexual violencehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/scarman Sexual violence against women and girls in Britain will be discussed by experts in a public lecture at University of Leicester this month. 
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                    New digital map remembers Vanished Leicesterhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/new-digital-map-remembers-2018vanished-leicester2019 Leicester researchers have developed a new digital map of ‘Vanished Leicester’ which shows the transformation of the city in recent decades. 
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                    International Conference on Hydrogenase and Other Redox Metalloenzymes 2026https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/research/hydrogenase-2026 Web page for the International Conference on Hydrogenase and Other Redox Metalloenzymes. The conference will be held in Leicester in Summer 2026. 
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                    Supervisionhttps://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision Cancer Studies Cardiovascular Sciences Genetics Healthcare and Pharmacy in Practice Molecular and Cell Biology Population Health Sciences Psychology and Visual Sciences Respiratory Sciences Life... 
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                    Foreign Policy Analysishttps://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl2019 Module code: PL2019 By most accounts, the United States is the sole remaining superpower, and its foreign policy plays a major role in the politics and international relations of arguably every other nation on Earth.