The E.A. Milne Centre’s world leading experts pursue explanations for the wonders of the Universe What are stars made of? How were galaxies created?
Milne Centre for Astrophysics is named in honour of the Hull-born physicist and mathematician Edward Arthur Milne. Milne was a truly prolific researcher; amongst his many discoveries, the most groundbreaking were his insights into the inner structure and atmosphere of stars. His work on cosmology also paved the way for the our modern understanding of the history and evolution of the Universe. Arth
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
STEM DAY 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...
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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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
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.
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!
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
Fly-Through of the Universe: The Horizon Run 5 An unprecedented simulation of the Universe spanning its first 8 billion years of existence, utilising 350 million core hours of supercomputing time. The sim...
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 ...
Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis On Accreting White Dwarfs: building seeds for the p-process 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...