Jessica Thorne
Jessica Thorne has a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Chemistry, and a Masters of Physics in Astronomy and Astrophysics. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia exploring the evolution of hundreds of thousands of galaxies over the last 8 billion years. Her work uses the light emitted from galaxies across the electromagnetic spectrum to unpack their histories including when their star formation history, and chemical evolution.
Latest articles by Jessica Thorne
Some black holes are anything but black – and we've found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones
By Sabine Bellstedt, Jessica Thorne published
New research has road-tested a way to spot some of the most voracious black holes of all, making it easier to find them buried deep in the hearts of distant galaxies.
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