News

News items from the Department

University of Leicester work highlighted at prestigious international event

Leicester academics present their work at meeting attended by scientists and journalists from around the world

University of Leicester in the News, 25 January - 14 February 2012

A regular review from the Press Office of coverage of the University in the media.

Lecture explores the effectiveness of climate models

Interdisciplinary Science Research Lecture discusses one way of tackling the growing problem of global warming.

Intermediate Mass Black Holes and revelations

New findings build on discovery made at University of Leicester

Black holes gobbling asteroids in the galaxy's bright core

University of Leicester physicists theorise that frequent bright flares from the centre of the Milky Way are the result of the galaxy's supermassive black hole devouring space rocks

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory finds Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids

University of Leicester physicists analyse data from the telescope and find giant black hole vaporising asteroids may be source of frequent flares from the galactic core