Chris Lintott

Recent articles by Chris Lintott

A simulation showing Earth’s night sky in 3.75 billion years as Andromeda collides with the Milky Way. Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

Andromeda-Milky Way collision: what happens when the galaxies collide?

I. HEYWOOD (OXFORD/RHODES/SARAO), NARVIKK/ISTOCK/GETTY. Two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope, with their light shown in red

Two giant radio galaxies found are among brightest in the Universe

Artist's impression of a Sun-like star near a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

Where is the nearest black hole to Earth?

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)

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

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

BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

Three images of NGC 2770 from early 2008 show the rare occurrence of two supernovae. Credit: ESO

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

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.

How do binary stars survive in star clusters?

Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 4100. Credit ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho

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

How do black holes form?

The 3-body-problem remains a sticking point for astronomers. Credit: iStock

Solving the three-body problem in astronomy

Scientists are watching pulsars carefully to detect the rippling fabric of the cosmos. Credit: dani3315/iStock/Getty Images

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

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

Observations shed light on the history of our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole