Past events
Beyond gas removal: early insights into star formation quenching from MAUVE.
Within general relativity, the standard cosmological model adopts many approximations for gravitational interactions and geometry. These approximations have served us well so far, but as our error bars grow smaller and smaller we need to know at exactly what point they fail.
Mount Stromlo Observatory in conjunction with the Canberra Astronomical Society invite you to attend our public observing nights of 2026. Come and see the craters of the moon, planets, and beautiful star clusters and nebulae. Object visibility will vary depending on the night.
I will review the governing processes that shape the dynamics of stars and black holes in dense galactic nuclei, including the effects of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes.
Direct detection experiments seek to observe rare interactions between dark matter particles and ordinary matter, requiring extreme sensitivity and deep underground locations to shield against cosmic-ray backgrounds. The two dark matter searches I will introduce in this talk happen to share an unusual home: gold mines.