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    2. Chris Lintott

    Chris Lintott

    Recent articles by Chris Lintott

    Artist's impression of hypervelocity star HE 0437-5439, which has been booted out of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
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    The mystery of the Milky Way’s runaway stars

    An artist’s impression shows how the Universe’s first, massive, blue stars are embedded in gaseous filaments. Credit: N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation
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    How did the first stars affect the evolution of the Universe?

    Do the high energy jets we see in the most active systems, suggest growing black holes? Credit: draco-zlat/getty images
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    BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

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    Three images of NGC 2770 from early 2008 show the rare occurrence of two supernovae. Credit: ESO
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    Why do some galaxies have more supernovae than others?

    ALMA image of the planet-forming disk around the young star RU Cup. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Huang; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello
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    Star’s spiral disc calls planetary formation model into question

    Binary star system App, imaged by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/Callingham et al.
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    How do binary stars survive in star clusters?

    Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 4100. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho
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    How do galaxies form?

    An artist’s impression showing a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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    How do black holes form?

    The 3-body-problem remains a sticking point for astronomers. Credit: iStock
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    Solving the three-body problem in astronomy

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    Scientists are watching pulsars carefully to detect the rippling fabric of the cosmos. Credit: dani3315/iStock/Getty Images
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    Searching for gravitational waves from supermassive black holes

    Star factory: the Orion A molecular cloud, as captured by the VISTA infrared telescope, contains many young stars. ESO/VISION survey
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    How do stars form?

    A cataclysmic flare, propelled from the heart of the Milky Way 3.5 million years ago, was felt 200,000 lightyears away. Credit: James Josephides/Thorsten Tepper-Garcia/ASTRO 3D
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    Observations shed light on the history of our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole

    The Sun shows us how sunspots appear dark against a star. Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
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    Observing spots on distant stars

    An artist’s impression of V404 Cygni shows it drawing in material from a nearby star (left). Jets of gas (right) are released from its disc. Credit: icrar
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    Black hole jets may be more unpredictable than thought

    S5-HVS1 has been speeding away ever since its dust-up with black hole Sgr A* 4.8 million years ago. Credit: hadzi3/iStock/Getty Images, Vadim Sadovski/iStock/Getty Images.
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    Speeding star reveals the secrets of the Milky Way

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