PhD in Testing the Foundations of Cosmology with Quasars University of Southampton in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in astrophysics and observational astronomy, focused on changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the evolution of supermassive black holes . The project asks why some black holes appear to change dramatically over just months, challenging current ideas about accretion and black-hole growth. The successful candidate will collate a uniform sample of changing-look AGN using major surveys such as SPHEREx, WISE, Euclid, and eROSITA , then measure...

Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA) at the University of Turku is inviting applications for a three-year postdoctoral researcher / senior researcher fixed-term position in astronomy, astrophysics, physics , and multi-messenger astronomy . The project is part of the ERC-funded BlackHolistic initiative, which aims to create colour movies of black holes and study their astrophysics across scales. The work focuses on the physics of relativistic jets launched from accreting supermassive bla...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in astronomy, astrophysics, applied mathematics, and data science focused on how gas travels through galaxies to feed supermassive black holes. The project, supervised by Dr Sandra Raimundo , investigates the physical processes that move atomic, ionised, and molecular gas from galactic scales to the nucleus, and whether that inflow is sufficient to power active galactic nuclei (AGN). You will work with multi-wavelength observations and physical mo...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in The Dynamic Lives of Galaxies and Their Black Holes , supervised by Dr Sandra Raimundo in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences / School of Physics & Astronomy. This project sits at the intersection of astronomy , astrophysics , applied mathematics , data science , and space science . It focuses on how galaxies evolve through mergers and gas accretion, and how these processes shape star formation, unusual kinematic structures, and th...

Lancaster University’s School of Physics and Astronomy is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transient Astrophysics as part of the five-year STFC Large Award TRANSCEND . The project is a collaboration with the University of Oxford, the University of Southampton, and Queen’s University Belfast, using Vera Rubin/LSST transient data and the 4MOST Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) to study how stars explode, how supermassive black holes grow, and the nature of dark energy. This L...