August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...from the satellite constellations, stating that “recent advances in radio astronomy, such as producing the first image of a black hole or understanding more about the formation of the planetary systems, were only possible through concentrated efforts...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
...half a century ago could read a few classic astronomy texts featuring black-and-white plates from the likes of the Palomar Telescope and, in... astrophysics from the “early cosmic maps”, via black holes and the cosmic background radiation to what the ...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... be much heavier nuclei, iron or even uranium if they come from more energetic events such as supernovae and black holes. High-speed atomic particles produced by supernovae and other energetic deep-space events are referred to as galactic...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... at the Astronomical observatory of Strasbourg, France, where he carries out research on the formation and evolution of black holes. He has been selected to lead observations of galaxies for a forthcoming NASA satellite called IXPE (Imaging X-ray...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc in mathematics, with a final year dissertation analysing how black holes affect the curvature of spacetime nearby. Daniel then graduated from Cranfield University with a Master of Science degree...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... at Harvard university where he serves as director of the Institute for Theory & Computation and is founding director of the Black Hole Initiative. His team looked at dozens of past proposals for interstellar travel - even those based on uncertain...
