Robert Lea

Freelance Journalist

United Kingdom

Science journalist specialising in science, space, physics, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and technology. Published in Newsweek, Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, Space dot com, All About Space, and ZME Science. Science communication articles for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics.

Portfolio
livescience.com
04/29/2023
The most powerful black holes in the universe may finally have an explanation

Scientists may have solved a 60-year-old mystery by discovering that quasars - energetic objects that are powered by ravenous supermassive black holes and can outshine trillions of stars combined - form when galaxies collide and merge. The findings indicate that the Milky Way could host a quasar of its own when it collides with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy several billion years from now.

livescience.com
03/10/2023
Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universe

Glimpsed only occasionally at the hearts of massive clusters of galaxies, ultramassive black holes are some of the largest and most elusive objects in the universe. These black hole behemoths have masses exceeding that of 10 billion suns, making them far more monstrous than even the supermassive black holes found at the centers of galaxies like the Milky Way, and their tremendous size has long perplexed astronomers.