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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the @uniofbath.bsky.social and online 🔭 I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌 @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @sagencl.bsky.social

Poster outlining title and date of the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture: Unveiling the secrets behind supermassive black holes by Dr Vicky Fawcett

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New paper by PhD student Devang Liya 🎉 This study demonstrates the power of JWST photometry to constrain the SEDs of AGN 📈 Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26884

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social team will be at this year's #stemfest in Newcastle! We'll be exploring invisible light and space with ~3000 students across 3 days! ✨ #rtcnorth

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Houda Haidar presenting her poster on dust in nearby AGN with JWST ✨

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Lots of @newcastleuni.bsky.social representation at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week! ✨ First up, @astrofawcett.bsky.social talking about evidence for a blow-out phase in dusty QSOs 💨 #NAM2025Durham

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We need your help to create immersive and accessible educational experiences! Are you interested in helping make science engaging and accessible to a wider audience? If so, please fill out this short survey about using sound to represent scientific data and concepts in educational shows.

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A few photos from the Discover Festival at @newcastleuni.bsky.social - great event with lots of engagement from the public! ✨ Karthika Bhuvanendran @astrofawcett.bsky.social @rosedshepherd.bsky.social

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Great watching the 3 Minute Thesis @newcastleuni.bsky.social final, featuring 3 of our brilliant astro PhD students! ✨ Rose Shepherd, Carola Zanoletti & Julie Thomas

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very honoured the our project Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East won the @newcastleuni.bsky.social Engagement and Place Award for Engaging for Cultural Benefit ✨ Thank you to all the team! 🔭 Find out more here: www.spaceinvestigators.com #EngageAwards2025

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢New paper alert! Carola Zanoletti explores how using PCA-based cuts can provide tighter constrains on modified gravity theories 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2503.20951

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢New paper alert! Charlie MacMahon explores new ways to train cosmological emulators in order to constrain cosmological models 🖥️🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2504.00552

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Amazing news to hear that @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomy PhD student Houda Haidar has been awarded #JWST time to study dust and shocks in AGN ✨

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Amazing to hear that two of our @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomers, @astrofawcett.bsky.social & @bethmg.bsky.social, were celebrated at the inspirational women of Newcastle event for #IWD2025 ✨

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RAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Published in #MNRAS: "The Quasar Feedback Survey: zooming into the origin of radio emission with e-MERLIN", Njeri et al. This is Fig. 9: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

The four targets with the most clearly defined jetted emission, which enable common jet properties to be derived. The top row shows the VLA 6 GHz images, where the blue contours are from the e-MERLIN natural-weighted images. The VLA 6 GHz images are represented by red contours in all panels. The middle row shows the natural-weighted e-MERLIN images and the bottom row shows the e-MERLIN tapered images. The components used for calculations are labelled in the middle row (see Section 4.3).

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What drives radio emission in the faintest radio-quiet quasars? Are these radio-AGN quasars distinct from other similar compact radio sources? Ann Njeri and collaborators present the highest-ever spatial resolution radio studies of these targets: e-merlin.ac.uk/news.html#QFS

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I’m so happy to have organised my first conference: DEX at @newcastleuni.bsky.social ✨🎉 Very grateful to my amazing LOC who made everything run so smoothly! @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social @bethmg.bsky.social Steph Campbell, Carola Zanoletti, Carolyn Mill, Rose Shepherd

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Excited to host the DEX extragalactic conference at @newcastleuni.bsky.social for the first time ever! ⭐️

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Dr Vicky Fawcett @astrofawcett.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Excited that our museum exhibition Space Investigators is open tomorrow at the Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle ✨ This exhibition explores the role the North East of England has played in worldwide astronomy 🔭 www.spaceinvestigators.com

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Tonight Astro-Obs researcher Samuel Ward gave a wonderful Insights NCL talk "An Extragalactic Murder Mystery: Can Black Holes Kill Galaxies?"

Samuel in front of his title slide reading "An Extragalactic Murder Mystery: Can Black Holes Kill Galaxies?"

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

New Blog Post! Two new papers: How do powerful supermassive black holes impact upon molecular gas? blogs.ncl.ac.uk/astro-obs/20...

Multi-panel plot showing two galaxies. In the top row we see maps, colour-coded by velocity (blue-red). These show central molecular gas disks, but also filamentary molecular gas structures. These structures are found along, and around the contours, which represent the radio emission. This reveals that the molecular gas is being entrained by expanding radio lobes. The bottom panels show CO emission-line profiles, extracted from the central regions of the galaxies. These show high velocity components, expected to be associated with outflowing gas.

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Huge congrats to Newcastle Astro-Obs researcher Carola Zanoletti whose first paper is out on the arXiv today! Go read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2310.19871 In it she and her collaborators explore effects of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and constrain an untested area of its parameter space!

Present-day (z = 0) linear matter power spectrum for small-α 4DEGB model. The middle (solid black) curve is the power spectrum for a ΛCDM model. The dotted (green) and dash-double dotted (gray) curves show the ΛCDM+Neff model with Neff = 5.46 and 0.62 respectively.

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

We'll miss Cora when she leaves us, but our loss is Bielefeld's gain! Excited to see what Cora and her group achieves and hope to build strong ties between Newcastle and Bielefeld 🌌

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Cosmo Cora @cosmocora.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I am excited to say that I will start my ERC Starting Grant “Probing cosmic large-scale structure beyond the average” and a professorship at Bielefeld University in March 2024. I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my group in autumn 2024 - learn more on my webpage cosmocora.de and please share it!

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

🔊Calling early career researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. The Royal Society has announced new 4yr fellowships. The 1st yr pilot invites applications from researchers (Phd with <24 mo postdoc experience) with Black heritage. Deadline 24thJan. 🧪👩🏾‍🔬🔭 royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

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Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society

This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM, with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successf...

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Congrats to our very own Samuel Ward whose lecture has been shortlisted for the SAgE PGR Insights public lecture here at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! You can vote to see Samuel's lecture 'An Extragalactic Murder Mystery: Can Black Holes Kill Galaxies?' here: www.ncl.ac.uk/events/notic...

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

New Blog Post! Ada Lovelace Day 2023 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/astro-obs/20... #WomenInSTEM #EDI #AdaLovelaceDay

Students and staff watching a livestream of the Royal Institution’s Ada Lovelace Day Live ‘science cabaret’, celebrating the contributions of women in science.

The attendees are sitting in rows next to many pizza boxes, facing away from the camera and towards the livestream on a projector screen.

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Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Looking forward to seeing more from @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social fascinating projects exploring observational cosmology and galaxy evolution 🌌 🔭 #WeAreNCL

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Join our very own superstar PhD researcher Houda Haidar on 21st October for the first ever planetarium show in Arabic at the Royal Observatory Greenwich! t.co/duYeUCgo3E

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اكتشاف النظام الشمسي

Join us for a planetarium show in Arabic, presented live by an astronomer

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

New Blog Post! Hidden supermassive black holes reveal their secrets through radio signals blogs.ncl.ac.uk/astro-obs/20...

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Hidden supermassive black holes reveal their secrets through radio signals | Astro-Obs

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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭 @astro-obs-ncl.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Hello, bluesky! We are the Astro-Obs research group, researching astrophysics and observational astronomy at Newcastle University 🌌📡

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