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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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Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/hippo-fossil
Neil Adams, PhD researcher in the Centre for Palaeobiology Research at the University of Leicester and Earth Collections Project Officer at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, said: “It was very exciting to come across a hippo tooth during our recent excavations...
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Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary aurorae
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/08/saturns-high-altitude-winds-generate-an-extraordinary-aurorae/
Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn.
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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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The Geography of the Criminal Corpse: Magic, therapies and bodily pieces across Europe. By Francesca
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/01/19/francesca-matteoni-the-geography-of-the-criminal-corpse-magic-therapies-and-bodily-pieces-across-europe/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on January 19, 2016 I have been involved in the first two years of the project as a postdoctoral researcher working on the medico-magical employment of the criminal corpse’s pieces: hands, fingers,...
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Teacher training at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/education/study/pgce
At the University of Leicester, we have a long and proud history of training outstanding primary and secondary school teachers with excellent employment prospects. Find out more about our PGCE courses.
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Choose your presessional course
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/presessional/courses
Learn more about our presessional courses and the options available to you as a potential University of Leicester student.
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College of Social Sciences Arts and Humanities (CSSAH)
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/people/college-of-social-sciences-arts-and-humanities
LeMID (Leicester Microbial Sciences and Infectious Disease) academic staff members from the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CSSAH).
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Leicester Presessional English Test FAQs
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/frequently-asked-questions/test-faqs
Leicester Presessional English Test FAQ's
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MIXS: studying Mercury in detail
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs
BepiColombo carries two X-ray spectrometers: MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer) and SIXS (Solar Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer). No-one has sent an imaging X-ray telescope to any planetary body before so this is ground-breaking science.