Archive for Daxal Mehta

The growth of light seed black holes in the early Universe

Posted in Maynooth, The Universe and Stuff with tags , , , , , on January 21, 2026 by telescoper

Meanwhile, back in the world of research, I see that Maynooth University has issued a news item about a new paper by colleagues in the Department of Physics, Daxal H. Mehta, John A. Regan and Lewis Prole. The story has also been picked up by the Irish media, e.g. here.

You may find the paper behind a paywall, as it is published in Nature Astronomy, in which case you will just have to make do with the abstract:

And here’s a pretty picture from one of the simulations used in the paper: