Michael Drinkwater – The Conversation

An artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. NASA/JPL-Caltech

February 19, 2018

Sizes matters for black hole formation, but there’s something missing in the middle ground

Holger Baumgardt, The University of Queensland and Michael Drinkwater, The University of Queensland

Black holes may come in many sizes, but there’s still a gap in the middle. The hunt is on to solve the mystery of where are the intermediate size black holes.

Hubble fireworks.

April 23, 2015

Hubble in pictures: astronomers’ top picks

Tanya Hill, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology; Chris Tinney, UNSW ; Fred Watson, Australian Astronomical Observatory; Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney; Howard E Bond, Penn State; James Bullock, University of California, Irvine; Jane Charlton, Penn State; John Clarke, Boston University; Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University; Lucas Macri, Texas A&M University; Michael Drinkwater, The University of Queensland; Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University; Mike Eracleous, Penn State; Philip Kaaret, University of Iowa; Rachel Webster, The University of Melbourne; Roberto Soria, Curtin University, and William Kurth, University of Iowa

Astronomers from around the world identify their favourite images sent back to Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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