Press

Press releases and media reports which have resulted from my research.

'Black hole police' discover a dormant black hole outside our galaxy (ESO, July 2022) reported in:

• First dormant black hole found outside the Milky Way (The Guardian)

• A way to find 'quiet' black holes finally bears fruit (Science)

Cosmic Serpent (ESO, Nov 2018) reported in:

• The Times

• Newsweek

• CNN

Weighing massive stars in nearby galaxy reveals excess of heavyweights (Oxford, January 2018) reported in:

• 'Astonishing' overabundance of massive stars found in neighbouring galaxy (Independent)

• Massive stars far larger and more common than expected – these 'cosmic engines' could rewrite astrophysics (Newsweek)

Hubble unveils monster stars (ESA, March 2016) reported in:

• Hubble telescope spies stellar 'land of giants' (BBC Science News)

• British astronomers find monster stars (Sky News)

• Monster stars discovered by British astronomers (Telegraph)

• Huge stars, 30 million times brighter than the sun, spotted by Hubble Space Telescope (the Independent)

• The Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a gang of 'monster' stars (Washington Post)

• Le telescope Hubble saisit une pouponniere d’etoiles mastodontes (le Monde)

Fast, furious, refined: Smaller black holes can eat plenty (Gemini, Nov 2013) reported in:

• Downsized black hole is much brighter than it should be (Nature News)

• Black hole's behavior defies the rules of astrophysics (Discover Magazine)

• Astronomers fooled by shiny, but tiny, black hole (LA Times)

Hubble's 22nd anniversary image shows turbulent star-making region (STScI, April 2012) reported in Big picture: The Tarantula Nebula (BBC Science News)

Gemini South reveals first nitrogen-sequence Wolf-Rayet nucleus of a planetary nebula (Gemini, March 2012)

Stars just got bigger (ESO, July 2010) reported in:

• Astronomers detect monster star (BBC Science News)

• Scientists find most massive star ever discovered (Associated Press)

• Stellar heavyweight breaks the scales (Science NOW)

• Biggest star ever found may be ticking antimatter bomb (New Scientist)

• What a scorcher – hotter, heavier and millions of times brighter than the sun (The Guardian)

• British astronomers discover largest stars (The Times)

• Astronomers identify star 10 million times brighter than the Sun (The Telegraph)

• The star that's ten million times brighter than the Sun (The Independent)

• Giant sun 'largest ever found' (Daily Express)

• Mon-stars put the sun in the shade (Channel 4 news)

• R136a1: New heavyweight champion? (Sky and Telescope)

• Most massive star detected (Discovery News)

• Star 320 times bigger than the sun found (Sky News)

Hubble catches heavyweight runaway star speeding from 30 Doradus (HST, May 2010) reported in Fast-moving star is a really big loser (Science News)

Black hole hunters set new distance record (ESO, January 2010) reported in 'Farthest' star-mass black hole (BBC Science News)

Massive black hole smashes record (NASA, October 2007)

Neutron star discovered where a black hole was expected (Chandra, November 2005)

Young and exotic stellar zoo: Super star cluster uncovered in Milky Way (ESO, March 2005)