Photographing Sagitarius A*: first images of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
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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Leo Li
The Eternal Waste Land: T. S. Eliot and the art of hope and despair
“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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Durham takes the leads in largest Universe simulation
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
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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Humanity and physics: explaining the standard model
The Standard Model is a complex part of physics. Leo Li breaks it down and explains its importance.
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Decolonising your bookshelf: the two faces of Lu Xun
“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
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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Eve
“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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Seeing the universe through dark matter lenses
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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