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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New A&A paper from TALES DC Natale De Bonis, with TALES members Dragana Ilić, Andjelka B. Kovačević & an international team! 🎉 An autoencoder that flags unusual AGN from their variability, tested on obscured AGN in COSMOS Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/new #TALES #MSCA #HorizonEurope #AGN #ML #LSST

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New research publication co-authored by TALES members @a-georgakakis.bsky.social & M. Chira follows the rare, complete lifecycle of a cosmic storm! Read more: xraygroup.astro.noa.gr/brewing-ragi... #TALES #Astrophysics #MSCA #AGN #HorizonEurope #EUresearch #ResearchImpactEU #BlackHoles #Quasars

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🎉 Big congrats to TALES PhD researcher Marios Kouzis on his debut paper in #ApJL! 🌌 Why do some supermassive black hole centers undergo wild brightness shifts in just months or years? Spoiler alert: 🧲🙃 👉 Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #TALES #MSCA #HorizonEurope #EUresearch #AGN #Astrophysics

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🌟 Meet Shashanth, TALES Doctoral Candidate at the University of Bristol, funded by UKRI! From Chennai to Amsterdam to Bristol, he's modelling the extreme environments right at the edge of supermassive black holes. 🔭🌌 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #TALES #Astrophysics #MSCA #HorizonEU #UKRI

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🌟 Meet Erin, TALES Doctoral Candidate at the University of Nova Gorica! From a small Belgian village to the Rubin Observatory, she's using machine learning to hunt for some of the most extreme events in the universe. 🔭🌌 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #TALES #MSCA #MarieCurie #HorizonEU #EUresearch

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🌟 Meet Tianying, TALES Doctoral Candidate at MPE! From Longyan to Beijing to Munich, she's using the Einstein Probe and machine learning to catch stars being torn apart by black holes. 🔭🌌 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #TALES #Astrophysics #MSCA #HorizonEurope #TDEs #QPEs #BlackHoles

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🌟 Meet Vicente, TALES Doctoral Candidate at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"! From Pamplona to Madrid, Aarhus, Bologna, NASA and Rome — he's now building machine learning tools to decode the most energetic outflows in the universe. 🔭🌍 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #Astrophysics #TALES

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🌟 Meet Valerio Pandolfi, TALES Doctoral Candidate at SRON! From Rome to the Netherlands, he's using machine learning to decode the winds of supermassive black holes 🔭 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #Astrophysics #AGN #TALES

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🌟 Meet Marios Kouzis, TALES Doctoral Candidate at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Warsaw! From Athens to Poland, he's building models to unravel the physics of black hole accretion. 🧗🔭 👉Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #TALES #HorizonEurope #AGN #XrayAstronomy #MSCA

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

⭐ Meet Natale De Bonis! 🌌 From stargazing in rural Italy to a PhD at the University of Belgrade, Natale is using AI and machine learning to decode the accretion disks around supermassive black holes. 💻🔭 👉Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #TALES #Astrophysics #MSCA #HorizonEurope #PhD

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

🌟 Meet Michail, TALES DC at the University of Naples Federico II! From Crete to Naples, he's using large-scale sky surveys to study the optical variability of AGNs and dig into the mysteries of active galaxy cores. 🔭🌊 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Astrophysics #AGN #TALES #MSCA #HorizonEurope

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🌟 Meet Nicolò Belgiovine, TALES DC at the University of Crete! From southern Italy to Padova, Groningen and Crete, he's using X-ray telescopes to probe the hearts of galaxies, one discovery at a time. 🔭📷 👉 Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Interview #Astrophysics #AGN #TALES #MSCA

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🌟 Meet Prathamesh Ingale, TALES Doctoral Candidate at the University of Crete! From Pune to Bonn to Crete, he's unravelling the physics of black holes one X-ray dataset at a time. 🔭 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #EarlyCareerResearcher #TALES #MSCA #PhD #AGN

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

TALES DC Michail Polioudakis has contributed to a paper accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics, presenting AGILE , a new simulation pipeline for modelling AGN, galaxies, and stars in the upcoming Rubin/LSST survey. 🎉 Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #TALES #Astronomy #LSST #AGN #Astrophysics

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🌌 Two TALES DCs, Erin Umuzigazuba and Natale De Bonis, landed in the top 10% of 893 teams in the MALLORN astronomical AI challenge detecting rare Tidal Disruption Events (stars eaten by black holes). Proud of them. 👏 👉 Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #Astrophysics #ML #LSST #AI #TALES

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Meet Amie-Louise Doherty — early career scientist and TALES Doctoral Candidate! From the west coast of Ireland all the way to the National Observatory of Athens for a PhD in Astronomy. 👉 Read more about Amie-Louise: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #TALES #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork #AGN #TDEs #Astronomy

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The 1st Training Event & Consortium Meeting was successfully held in 16–20 Feb in Naples 🇮🇹. 11 doctoral candidates, a week of AGN physics, ML workshops, and an amazing city to explore together. The TALES journey has officially begun! 🚀 #Astronomy #MSCA #TALES 👉 Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

✨ New animation showing light flickering as supermassive black holes devour matter from their surroundings accompanies the publication led by TALES supervisor A. Georgakakis @a-georgakakis.bsky.social 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MXR... 👉 Read more: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/

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Animation showing light flicker as supermassive black holes devour matter from their surroundings

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

✨ TALES members Maria Chira and Antonis Georgakakis lead a new MNRAS study presenting evidence that the X-ray–to–UV correlation of quasars evolves with cosmic time, based on eROSITA-DE, SDSS, and XMM-Newton data. 👉 Read more: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

✨ TALES doctoral candidate Vicente Madurga Favieres published his debut scientific paper on the origin of the X-ray variability of the high-mass X-ray binary, Vela X-1. 👉 Read more at: tales.astro.noa.gr/news/ #TALES #PhD #TimeDomain #MarieCurie #HorizonEurope #Research #ScienceCareers #Astronomy

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🚀 We're thrilled to welcome the new TALES Doctorate Candidates! Starting Autumn 2025, they'll begin PhDs in time-domain astrophysics as part of the TALES programme. 🔭 Meet them & learn more: 👉 tales.astro.noa.gr #TALES #PhD #Astrophysics #Research

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TALES: Time-domain Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes @tales-eu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🚀 Meet #TALES: a new #MSCA Doctoral Network advancing time-domain astrophysics across #Europe! 📅 Launched Feb 17, 2025, we train future researchers on how supermassive black holes shape galaxies! ℹ️ tales.astro.noa.gr 👀 Stay tuned for exciting updates! 🔭 #TALESproject #Astrophysics #BlackHoles

We are excited to announce the launch of TALES (Time-domain Analysis to study the Life-cycle and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes) — a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network at the frontier of astrophysical research and training in Europe.

The kick-off meeting of the project took place on Feb 17th 2025. It was attended by TALES supervisors, representatives of the industrial and academic partners and members of the TALES advisory board.

TALES aspires to provide high-quality doctorate training to a new generation of researchers in one of the most dynamic areas of modern astrophysics: understanding how supermassive black holes grow, evolve, and influence their host galaxies.

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