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Prof. Leah Morabito will deliver the 2025 Christmas Lecture, titled 'The Radio Universe'
Visible light is only a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. What does the Universe look like at radio wavelengths? This lecture will explore the surprising and fascinating history of radio astronomy, and take a look at what we have learned about super-massive black holes using radio telescopes.
The Christmas Lecture is a public event and will be delivered by Professor Leah Morabito, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, on both 15th and 16th December in the Rochester Building.
Astronomer Leah Morabito is a Professor at the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, and uses radio telescopes to answer fundamental questions on how super-massive black holes co-evolve with the galaxies in which they reside. Leah's speciality is high-resolution imaging at low frequencies, using a Square Kilometre Array pathfinder telescope, the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR). She leads the LOFAR Imaging of Resolved AGN (LIRA) group, which focuses on using unique high-resolution, low-frequency observations to advance our understanding on how AGN help shape galaxy evolution. Leah holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to carry out a high-resolution low-frequency radio survey using LOFAR, and is co-PI of a new LOFAR2.0 Large Programme which will extend this work.
The lecture will also be live-streamed so that people can tune in online if they wish.
Further information about times and connecting online to follow.