Observations of nearby galaxies and high redshift quasars suggest that black holes are present in the majority of galaxies. The SDSS, UKIDSS and VISTA surveys have revealed numerous high-redshift QSOs…

Strongly interacting particles (hadrons) come in two classes: mesons made of quarks and antiquarks and baryons consisting of three quarks. Quarks come in six varieties or flavours: up, down, strange,…

The ESA Planck satellite, launched in May 2009, provides an unprecedented high resolution survey of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. COSMOS and HPCS@DiRAC resources were vital…

Galactic scale models of star formation focus on resolving how large-scale gas flows in spiral galaxies form the dense gas clouds where star formation occurs on scales 10,000 times smaller….

As a gravitationally unstable molecular cloud core undergoes collapse to form a star, it undergoes several distinct phases. Initially it collapses almost isothermally as energy is easily radiated away. However,…

The aim of the ExoMol project is to compute comprehensive spectroscopic line lists for hot molecules thought likely to occur in the atmospheres of exoplanets, brown dwarfs and cool stars….

Dark matter is one of the strangest puzzles in physics: the universe seems to be composed of far more stuff than we can see directly. The evidence is overwhelming, yet…

Matter is usually comprised of protons and neutrons which consist of quarks bound tightly together by the Strong Interaction of Particle Physics. However at incredibly large temperatures of a few…

The world of quarks and gluons, currently the most fundamental building blocks of matter known, is hidden from us. Quarks are never seen as free particles; instead we see their…

Almost all galaxies have supermassive black holes in their centres. These holes grow because gas from the galaxy falls into them, a process which also makes the holes spin. In…

We are using cosmological numerical simulations to predict the expected physical properties of the Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) in the environment of masive starforming galaxies in the context of a ΛCDM…

It has proven extremely difficult to describe nuclei directly from a set of nuclear forces, apart from the very lightest elements. In the last decade there has been great progress,…

We have examined the evolution of astrophysical disc models for which the temperature decreases as a function of radius, leading to an angular velocity profile that varies with both radius…

The Standard Model of particle interaction describes the interactions of all the constituent of the matter to an impressive degree of accuracy. One of the successes of this model is…

We have carried out simulations of lattice QCD including up, down and strange quark loops using a chiral fermion discretization which is unique in fully preserving the meaning of left…

The standard cosmological model, the ”Lambda cold dark matter model” (LCDM) is backed up by an impressive array of data that cover a huge range of scales, from the entire…