PhD Project on the Brightest Eruptions from Supermassive Black Holes University of Southampton in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity in Astrophysics at the University of Southampton focused on the brightest eruptions from supermassive black holes, including ambiguous nuclear transients (ANTs), tidal disruption events, black hole growth, extreme gravity, and the gas/dust environment in galactic centres. The project is based in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, and is supervised by Dr Philip Wiseman. You will work with cutting-edge facilities and datasets such as the Le...

PhD opportunity in Astronomy / Astrophysics at the University of Southampton This funded PhD project, The Making of Bulges and Giant Elliptical Galaxies , is based in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. The project focuses on galaxy formation and evolution, especially how massive galaxies built their bulges and spheroids in the early Universe. You will use observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large ...

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...

PhD opportunity in Astronomy/Astrophysics at the University of Southampton on Hunting for black holes in the galaxy . This project, supervised by Professor Poshak Gandhi , focuses on the birth, growth, evolution, and demographics of black holes in the Milky Way and beyond. You will analyse data from major survey facilities including Gaia , the Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST) , eROSITA/SRG , and VISTA/4MOST , with opportunities to work at the interface of observational and theoretical astrophysics....

Postgraduate research project at the University of Southampton in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences . Project title: More data, more and better distances: Improving on Gaia parallaxes with multi-modal machine learning. This PhD project sits at the intersection of astronomy , physics , machine learning , neural networks , and statistics . The research aims to improve stellar distance estimates by combining diverse astronomical observations, especially when Gaia parallaxes are uncer...