A research physicist who has been working in Leicester for nearly 30 years has been re-elected to one of the top positions at the only global organisation that covers all areas of physics.
Leading experts from the University of Leicester are marking two decades of groundbreaking cosmic exploration as the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory celebrates its 20th anniversary.
A team from the University of Leicester has been set up to ‘chase’ some of the Universe’s most powerful explosions to probe the extreme physical forces that form them. They will be using a suite of satellite and ground-based telescopes to rapidly hunt gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
Massive burst of X-rays detected by University of Leicester astronomers indicates material three times the mass of Earth burning up in a black hole
Scientists from across the world have today revealed their analyses of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected. This exceptional event, nicknamed the BOAT (Brightest Of All Time), was discovered by NASA’s Fermi and Swift satellites last October, and University of Leicester researchers have played crucial roles
The transient detector and The Living Swift XRT Point Source Catalogue (LSXPS) can discover and announce new transient X-ray sources within just a few hours of their occurrence.
