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19:30 – 21:00

A brand-new  Lovell Lecture at Jodrell Bank.

Chaos at Cosmic Dawn: Where did the first stars and galaxies come from?

Powerful new telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are allowing us to peer further back in cosmic time than ever before. We can now see back to the infancy of our Universe, when the very first stars and galaxies formed. All is not well at “Cosmic Dawn” however — from black holes that are too big, to intergalactic gas that’s too cold, to “little red dots”, I will take you on a tour of some of the puzzling observations that are overturning our understanding of the early years of the cosmos.

About Professor Phil Bull

Cosmologist, mapping the Universe with radio and optical telescopes.

Phil Bull is a Reader in Cosmology at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. He has vast experience in the field of Radio Astronomy, including time as a postdoc in the labs at Berkeley, and a Program Fellow at NASA, USA.

With a DPhil (PhD) in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford, and a career spanning continents, he’s originally from Stoke on Trent and had happily found his way back to Jodrell Bank.

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