Methodist Hall, Chipping Norton - 7pm for 7.30pm start Summary: Almost every known galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its heart, including our own Milky Way, which have masses millions to billions that of our Sun. Understanding how these monster black holes shape their surroundings is crucial to our understanding of how galaxies evolve. […]

The talk explains why meteorites remain some of the most important materials for understanding the where, what and why of our Solar System, as they preserve information about key events and processes. For Mercury, as one of the least explored planets, we still don’t exactly know how it formed or what is going on at […]

Methodist Hall  7pm for 7.30 Topics TBN

Dr Rene Breton - Manchester University and Jodrell Bank Methodist Hall, Chipping Norton  7pm for 7.30 start  

Emma Elley is a DPhil student supervised by James Mathews, working on high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of jets from active galactic nuclei over kiloparsec scales. Her work focuses on modelling radio synchrotron emission from radio galaxies with 'flickering'' jet power to understand whether this leads to observable features on scales of 10s of kpc.  Further […]

Professor Paul Crowther is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield and is currently Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society.  Paul's research involves the study of the birth, life and death of the most massive stars in the universe. Such stars are rare, but dominate the ionising budget of galaxies and the energetics […]