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Artist's depiction of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope with two versions of the mysterious celestial object.

Scientists detect slowest-spinning radio emitting neutron star ever recorded

Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate – slower than any of the more than 3,000 radio emitting neutron stars measured to date.
5 June 2024
Infrared image from NASA James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope discovers the most distant galaxy so far

The discovery of the most distant galaxy yet seen was announced today by an international team, with Oxford astronomers playing a key role
30 May 2024
The black hole pulls material from a companion star towards it, forming a disc that rotates around the black hole before falling into it.

First proof of black hole ‘plunging regions'

Einstein has been proved correct with a key prediction about black holes, an international team led by researchers from the Department of Physics at Oxford.
16 May 2024
Dr Andrew Siemion

Dr Siemion honoured by SETI Institute

Dr Andrew Siemion has been awarded the SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Award for his exceptional and pioneering contributions to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and radio astronomy and his leadership in the field.
28 March 2024
Professor Stephen Smartt

Royal Society Research Professorship for Professor Smartt

Professor Stephen Smartt, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship.
20 February 2024
Mentor Dr Chiara Marletto, left, and her mentee Dr Zuzana Coculova, right

Why mentoring matters

The Department of Physics’ mentoring programme, aimed particularly at early career researchers, provides both mentors and mentees alike with a range of opportunities and positively benefits all those involved.
1 February 2024
I-band image from the Subaru telescope showing the host galaxy (object on the left) of the OH megamaser and the galaxy (on the right) which is around halfway between us and the OH megamaser galaxy and is likely to be gravitationally lensing the OH megamaser

Discovery of brightest OH maser

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford have discovered the brightest and most distant extragalactic hydroxyl maser from an untargeted survey with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
30 January 2024
Face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope

Latest JWST images publicly released

A set of highly detailed images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have been publicly released today; the extraordinary images will provide several new puzzle pieces for astronomers and astrophysicists around the world.
29 January 2024
Professor Jayne Birkby

Professor Birkby Blavatnik Young Scientist Award finalist

Professor Jayne Birkby has been recognised by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences as a finalist in the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
17 January 2024
Professor Pedro Ferreira

Professor Ferreira recognised by RAS

Professor Pedro Ferreira has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Eddington Medal 2024 for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.
12 January 2024
Images of the 97 galaxies observed by Breakthrough Listen in the new study

Most sensitive search for intelligent life beyond our galaxy to date

Breakthrough Listen announce findings from the most sensitive search to date for ‘technosignatures’ – signs of intelligent life – beyond the Milky Way.
6 December 2023
Artist’s impression of a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient

Extraordinary new space phenomenon mystifies scientists

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford have helped to discover a spectacularly bright and unusual explosion in a galaxy 4.4 billion light-years away. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
15 November 2023
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