Andy Lawrence

I am the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, working at the Institute for Astronomy which is co-located with the UK Astronomy Technology Centre at the beautiful and historic Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Before this I have worked or studied at Leicester, MIT, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Queen Mary, University of London. I specialise in the study of quasars (black holes in the centres of galaxies) and observational cosmology, as well as large-scale sky surveys and the Virtual Observatory.

Apr 8th 2024

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University of Edinburgh

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Sci: Physics

Sci: Physical & Earth Sciences

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Modern astronomy has made some astonishing discoveries - how stars burn and how black holes form; galaxies from the edge of the universe and killer rocks right next door; where the elements come from and how the expanding universe is accelerating. But how do we know all that? The [...]