Astronomers discover mysterious ‘Red Monster’ galaxies in the early Universe

An international team that includes the University of Bath has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies in the early Universe forming at unexpected speeds.

Planetarium show uncovers the invisible nature of supermassive black holes for general audiences

Dr Carolin Villforth and scientists across the EU have developed a planetarium show that explains the mystery of supermassive black holes to general audiences.

First spectroscopic observations of distant GRB host galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope

Dr Patricia Schady and her team use JWST to combine absorption and emission line techniques to study the cosmic chemical evolution of the young Universe.

What makes black holes grow and new stars form? Machine learning helps solve the mystery

It takes more than a galaxy merger to make a black hole grow and new stars form: machine learning shows cold gas is needed too to initiate rapid growth.

CRC Press publishes undergraduate textbook by Bath astrophysicist, Dr Hendrik van Eerten

Dr Hendrik van Eerten, a reader in the Department of Physics, has published Introduction to Fluid Dynamics in Physics and Astrophysics.

Bath Astrophysicist honoured with IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award

Dr Hendrik van Eerten, a reader in the Department of Physics, has co-authored one of this year’s most cited papers published in Institute of Physics journals.