Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University
My research interests include: wide-field sky surveys, object classification and photometric redshift estimation; growth of supermassive black holes, early universe and variability; optical counterparts to gravitational-wave events; galaxy evolution through cosmic epochs and via environmental influence; dust in the Milky Way and star-forming galaxies.
The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day
Feb 20, 2024 11:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Scientists have no reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell, perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale. Hell has been imagined as a supremely uncomfortable place, hot and hostile to bodily forms of...
Why do black holes twinkle? We studied 5,000 star-eating behemoths to find out
Feb 05, 2023 04:19 am UTC| Science
Black holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great, it bends space around them so tightly that nothing can escape, even light itself. And yet, despite their famous blackness,...
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