Matthew Bothwell

Public Astronomer, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

Matthew Bothwell is an astrophysist and science communicator. He is currently the public astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. He is the author “The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye” (upcoming 2021).

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Written by Matthew Bothwell

Illustration of ‘Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped interstellar object, against a backdrop of distant stars in space.

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Astronomy

Contact

An alien-made artefact or just interstellar debris? What ʻOumuamua says about how science works when data is scarce

Matthew Bothwell

Deep space field filled with numerous distant galaxies of various shapes and colours against a dark background.

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Astronomy

Monsters in the dark

The Universe’s biggest galaxies could hold the key to the birth of the cosmos. Why are these behemoths so hard to find?

Matthew Bothwell