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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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Glittering literati at Literary Leicester Festival 2016
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/glittering-literati-at-literary-leicester-festival-2016
The city's diverse celebration of the written and spoken word is returning next month with a prestigious line-up of speakers and contributors who have shaped the landscape of modern literature.
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University physicists make Quite Interesting guest appearances
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/university-physicists-make-quite-interesting-guest-appearances
Physicists from our University recently brought the aurora borealis to the studio of the popular BBC panel show QI.
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Conceptualising Islands in History: Considering Bermuda and Gibraltar’s Prison Hulks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/08/conceptualising-islands-in-history-considering-bermuda-and-gibraltars-prison-hulks/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on March 8, 2016 By Anna McKay, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Student, National Maritime Museum & University of Leicester.
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Innovative healthcare project to link patient data receives government funding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/04-sprint-exemplar-innovation-projects-patient-data-nhsdigital
A hospital doctor using a laptop|University of Leicester-led research to increase efficiency of data sharing within the NHS.
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Richard Float
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/richard-float
We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Richard Float, who worked in the Estates Division for more than thirty years, as Assistant Bursar and then Bursar. Richard passed away on 7 October 2024, aged 91.
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Peatland protection
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/peatland-protection
Peatlands around the world are being destroyed to make way for plantation development, logging and mining.
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Did you know? Food and Brazilian assertions of Africanness – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/05/21/did-you-know-food-and-brazilian-assertions-of-africanness/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 21, 2015 In October 1972, Brazilian foreign minister Gibson Barbosa went on a month-long trip to nine West African countries in order to develop closer economic and political relations with black Africa.
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The Muslim Terror Within: Tajikistan’s Islamophobic Legislation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/10/22/the-muslim-terror-within-tajikistans-islamophobic-legislation/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on October 22, 2024 Michael Dhanoya PhD Candidate in Criminology Tajikistan has become the latest country to place prohibitions on Muslims.
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Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fossils-plankton
Microfossils discovered by University of Leicester scientist date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they provide insight into early life in our oceans.