Talk format: Colloquium

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    Scrutinising the bedrock of contemporary cosmology
    The remarkable success of recent cosmology in pinpointing a consistent concordance model relies on several foundational assumptions, including homogeneity...
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    Smooth and clumpy dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
    Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are the most dark matter (DM)–dominated galaxies in the Universe, and as such, they provide excellent targets for testing a...
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    Status of the Extremely Large Telescope
    The ESO Extremely Large Telescope project is in the final stages of AIV. The bulk of the telescope and dome are erected on site and almost half the primary...
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    The delicate interplay between accretion, ejection and magnetism in neutron stars X-ray binaries
    Matter ejection, in the form of either winds or jets, is ubiquitous in accreting X-ray binaries. Although it is clear that accretion and ejection are profoundly...
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    The Emergence of Dwarf Galaxies, Star Clusters and Something In-between
    Over the past five years, numerical simulations of galaxy formation have quietly passed a key milestone. The latest cosmological simulations are now able to...
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    The Golden Mass of Galaxies and Black Holes
    This talk will address the preferred mass and time for galaxy formation, in dark-matter haloes similar to that of the Milky way but when the Universe was a few...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope: a cosmic story for the ages
    On December 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched from Earth towards its ultimate destination at the L2 Lagrange Point, 1.5 million kilometers...