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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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Sion Scott
https://le.ac.uk/people/sion-scott
The academic profile of Dr Sion Scott, Lecturer in Behavioural Medicine at University of Leicester
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50 years of credit cards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/50-years-of-credit-cards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Its 50 years since people started using credit cards in the UK with the issue of the first Barclaycards. The BBC has a fascinating social history feature.
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Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/projects/swift
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory data centre is hosted at the University of Leicester, and was initially designed to follow up Gamma-Ray bursts.
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Postgraduate
https://le.ac.uk/education/study/postgraduate
The School of Education at the University of Leicester offers a range of vibrant postgraduate programmes. See our Masters courses including our Master of Education MEd.
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People
https://le.ac.uk/film/people
Browse the academic staff who work in Film Studies at the University of Leicester.
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Outreach
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach
Through our outreach programmes, we promote our world-class research in archaeology and ancient history for the benefit of a wide audience.
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Can Black Hole Tidal Disruptions Leave Remnants?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/04/22/can-black-hole-tidal-disruptions-leave-remnants/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 April 2020 A guest blog from Professor Andrew King on black holes and observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton.
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Research staff
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/people/research-and-teaching-staff
Browse the research and teaching staff who work in Molecular and Cell Biology at Leicester, and see their contact details.
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Im ready to celebrate the end of an enjoyable and successful time at Leicester and prepare for the next chapter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/201cim-ready-to-celebrate-the-end-of-an-enjoyable-and-successful-time-at-leicester-and-prepare-for-the-next-chapter201d
Student Sam Cranswick’s contribution to Team Leicester is a perfect example of how becoming involved with university sport can lead to a number of exciting opportunities both on and off of the pitch.