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• A giant black hole in the Milky Way

  https://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.

• Life on the home front

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front

  Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.

• €1.5 million award to study birth of planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant

  Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).

• THESEUS

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/projects/theseus

  The “Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor” (THESEUS) mission concept is an European Space Agency candidate in Phase A study as part of the ESA Medium class call M7.

• Astrophysics Seminar Wednesday 15th Dec, 3pm (POSTPONED from 8th Dec)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/06/astrophysics-seminar-wednesday-8th-dec-3pm/

  Posted by ab520 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 6 December 2021 This week’s seminar will be by Rowan Smith (Manchester), on  “The Cloud Factory: resolving star formation in its galactic context” Abstract: I present suites of simulations that resolve individual molecular...

• Exceptional & Extraordinary

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/exceptional-and-extraordinary

  Exceptional & Extraordinary has commissioned four disabled artists to create four emotionally powerful, impactful, provocative and high-quality artworks.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 5 11 November

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-5-11-november

  Dr Jon Moran from the Department of Politics and International Relations has written an article for The Conversation about issues facing the Iraqi Army.

• Streptococcus pneumoniae

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/meningitis/streptococcus-pneumoniae

  Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial cause of meningitis, a community acquired infection.

• Student profiles

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/student-profiles

  Read our student profiles to find out more about what it’s really like to be a PhD student at Leicester.

• Students Union helps students bounce back from exam stress

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/students2019-union-helping-students-bounce-back-from-exam-stress

  An inflatable assault course, back massages and cute fluffy animals are just some of the ways in which the Students' Union is helping students combat their exam stress this summer between 11 May and 5 June.