Researchers at the University of Portsmouth and UFRGS in Brazil say the cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story. The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...

At @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 in Durham, Claire Greenwell is speaking on "Flipping the switch: what can we learn from the MIR emission of changing-look AGN?". Claire has published in #MNRAS, for example as a co-author on academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia

Didn't have this level of political chaos on the bingo card today 👀

Hey everyone! Its time for a paper thread! My first here on Bluesky 😁 This time on the weird and wonderful transient AT 2018dyk 😎 You can read along in this thread, or if you'd prefer to get straight to the paper you can find it ... Via MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

Vaccines do not contain any fetal tissue or cells, nor do they contain any cells derived from fetal materials.

Sarah’s rules of looking for life with only chemical signatures: 1) the smaller the molecule(s) the more likely they can also be produced by abiotic processes 2) one molecule, if it can be produced by any abiotic process, will never be enough to definitively claim detection of life

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

Off to start my first day at Southampton Uni and of course the train is delayed 😂 Thankfully not by much (for now 🤞)

So myself and a group of friends are off to Denmark 🇩🇰 for a Lego themed day trip today Are we deranged? Quite possibly. Follow along for fun and chaos 😂

Today we have a new video on the channel Field of View! We chat with Sravan Kumar, a cosmologist at the University of Portsmouth, all about different theories in physics and whether we can connect them to observations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3l...

Follow the (growing) Starter Pack for the Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation (ICG) - Find out about our investigations into Gravity, Galaxies, Sonification & more at the University of Portsmouth, UK 🌌🔭 go.bsky.app/SScAL4f

Feels like the right time to jump ship 😅 Hi Bluesky 😃