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...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
...) have a more cone-shaped morphology than the familiar jet-like form resulting from the supermassive black hole accretion in the hearts of other active galaxies. These results allowed researchers to determine that the magnetic field...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
..., along with providing insights into the behaviour of material in extreme gravitational fields, determining the spin of black holes, understanding the physical conditions in sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, and the distribution of dark matter...
