Quasars are extremely bright objects that reside in the centres of galaxies. They are believed to consist of a supermassive black hole (some as large as a billion times the...

Accretion is an important process relevant to various fields in astrophysics, from star formation to the study of compact binaries and Type I supernovae. Continuous theoretical and numerical efforts have...

Galaxies come in a variety of shapes. Nevertheless, in a simplified view of galaxy formation, one can classify them either as spirals or ellipticals. However, the orientation and ellipticity of...

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are among the most energetic phenomena in the Universe and are important for many different astrophysical research fields (e.g. theories of binary stellar evolution, chemical...

We have used the DiRAC-2 Complexity cluster to obtain a mass estimate of the Carina dwarf spheroidal (dSph) satellite of the Milky Way at the time when it first fell...

Stress Testing the Standard Model A vacuum is never completely empty space but teems with particles that are created fleetingly by quantum fluctuations in energy and then disappear. The heavier...

A hot topic in cosmology is to test gravity on scales well beyond our Solar system. 2015 marks the centenary of Einstein’s publication of his General theory of Relativity (GR),...