Monsters in the Dark: First Detection of a Direct Collapse Black Hole Candidate
Have we caught a glimpse of some of the earliest black holes in the universe, and what does it mean for our understanding of the early universe?
Brilliant Binaries: Explaining Reionisation
Could binary stars help explain one of the big unsolved problems in the early universe?
Classifying Civilisations: An Introduction to the Kardashev Scale
It’s been 50 years since Nikolai Kardashev proposed his eponymous scale for ranking hypothetical civilisations based on their energy consumption. We take a look at its theoretical and practical impact, and how it’s still influencing SETI today
Observational Evidence for the First Generation of Stars
Have we found evidence for the first generation of stars? This paper details observations made of CR7, one of the brightest observed high redshift galaxies