E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics

10/11/2025

The E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull is celebrating its 10th anniversary in January with a 2-day workshop on Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics, supported by the Royal Astronomical Society. 🪐🌌

Abstract submission is open until Saturday 15 November. Find out more 👇
https://www.milne.hull.ac.uk/10th-milne-anniversary/

07/11/2022

On Friday we held a STEM enrichment day for Year 6 pupils in the Senior School. We welcomed a number of external pupils who joined our current Year 6 for this exciting day which consisted of the following activities based around the solar system: SCIENCE - Exploring the moon Pupils investigated th...

29/07/2021

A massive thank you to Hibaldstow Astronomical Society for hosting our esteemed PhD student, Mikkel Kristensen, for delivering his talk on AGN and what they are!

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18/06/2021

2 Lectureships (Assistant Professor) in Data Science / Artificial Intelligence (1 aligned with Astronomical Sciences/Physics and 1 aligned with Computer Science); Deadline: July 23rd; Full application details available at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CGU983/lectureships-in-data-science-artificial-intelligence; Contact Prof Brad Gibson ([email protected]) for additional details.

21/11/2020

Congratulations to Lawrence Bilton for the completion of a most successful PhD viva ... that's Dr Bilton to you!

17/11/2020

https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/more/media-centre/news/2020/university-physicist-returns-to-hull-to-inspire-students-during-covid-19

Dr Gareth Few, a University of Hull physicist who honed his skills in the city has returned to his roots to inspire the next generation of science leaders.

03/11/2020

More news shortly, but thrilled to announce our Horizon 2020 grant (Infrastructures for Nuclear Astrophysics) has been funded by the EU ... an incredible €5M over 4 years as part of our Chemical Elements as Tracers as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos programme ... my role is relatively small ... I am so thrilled though for Marco Pignatari and Richard Stancliffe for their leadership! A stunning result just announced a few minutes ago!

16/10/2020

Five years ago, to the day, we opened the Milne Centre... we're now 25 staff and postgraduates... published 300 papers... brought in more than £1M in grants... run 500 school/public events reaching more than 3,000,000 people... doubled the number of women into Physics @ Hull... account for more than 15% of the University's citations... grown to be the #1 astronomy programme in the country in the National Student Survey. I have been blessed by being surrounded by a team of staff, postgraduates, and undergraduates, who have made the Centre one of the finest in the country (and definitely the nicest!). Happy 5th birthday to us!

03/10/2020

The singularly most jaw-dropping, hypnotic, beautiful fly-through of a simulated Universe ever created? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7qj_CtJtfA; with traditional Korean music, this is an artistic masterpiece. We are the Horizon Run 5 team: KIAS, KASI, KISTI, IAP, Oxford, and Hull

An unprecedented simulation of the Universe spanning its first 8 billion years of existence, utilising 350 million core hours of supercomputing time. The sim...

22/09/2020

Hey ... we used MeerKAT commissioning time to observe the cold gas in and around the MHONGOOSE galaxy ESO 302-G014 ... enjoy pictures of a meerkat and a mongoose, to celebrate! https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09766

01/08/2020

Spectacular insights into the origin of mysterious chemical elements such as rubidium and krypton ... courtesy of our own Marco Pignatari ...

The origin of the proton-rich trans-iron isotopes in the solar system is still uncertain. Single-degenerate thermonuclear supernovae (SNIa) with n-capture nucleosynthesis seeds assembled in the external layers of the progenitor's rapidly accreting white dwarf phase may produce these isotopes. We cal...