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First image of the black hole in the centre of our galaxy, taken by the EHT collaboration.
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Photographing Sagitarius A*: first images of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li

The black hole, with a mass of 4 million suns, is the point around which our entire galaxy revolves. But why is this image so important?

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Books Indigo 

The Eternal Waste Land: T. S. Eliot and the art of hope and despair

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li

“As much as the roaring twenties were a turning point to Western civilisation, Eliot proves himself unprecedentedly pivotal in conceiving a new stanza to the world’s poetic canon”. Leo Li delves into the world of T. S. Eliot in this centenary year.

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An image of the cosmos.
Durham News Print Edition Science & Tech 

Durham takes the leads in largest Universe simulation

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li

The simulation estimates the cosmic structure out to distance of 600 million light years from the Milky Way.

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Bewitching: the cursed enigma of ball lightning

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li, Verity Laycock

Ball lightning has been mystifying people for millennia, and recently, two Durham academics have found the earliest known account of it. Leo Li analyses possible explanations for the phenomenon.

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Science & Tech 

Humanity and physics: explaining the standard model

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li

The Standard Model is a complex part of physics. Leo Li breaks it down and explains its importance.

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Books Indigo 

Decolonising your bookshelf: the two faces of Lu Xun

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li

“This outcry, teemed with desperate hope, opens a new page to China’s literature and history”. For this addition of Books’ ‘Decolonising Your Bookshelf’ series, Leo Li gives an insight into the work of Lu Xun, Chinese philosopher, author and the hand behind the first vernacular Chinese novel.

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A sorcerer’s manual to the multiverse

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Adeline Zhao, Leo Li

The idea of a multiverse is exciting, but is it scientific? Leo Li explores different multiverse theories and the claims of detractors.

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Creative Writing Print Edition 

Eve

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li, Verity Laycock

“I am Eve, a twilight of possibilities”: Celebrate the new year with this sparkling short story about history and identity against a backdrop of fireworks.

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A diagram showing how massive objects in space distort space-time to cause gravitational lensing.
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Seeing the universe through dark matter lenses

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 sub.editors 0 Comments Leo Li, Xiaoyao Yin

Dark matter is thought to cause many strange phenomena, including gravitational lensing. But physicists remain divided as to what dark matter may be, or whether it even exists at all…

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