159 search results for “gravitational living” in the Staff website
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Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Willem van der DoesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Finding Baby Black Holes with the James Webb Space Telescope
Lecture, Oort lecture
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New Year's Reception
Conference
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Measuring the edge of Infinity
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Stellar drama: Relationships between planets and stars
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Mark Driessen