| Professor Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Laboratory) |
| 15th May, 2002 |
| The Astrophysics and Cosmology of Bright Radio Galaxies |
| The luminous radio galaxies are particularly valuable as cosmological tools since they can be readily observed at large redshifts. They display many helpful regularities in their properties which make them useful as cosmological probes, but their value as such depends upon being able to understand their astrophysics in some detail. In the lecture, the successes and problems of this programme will be discussed. It will be shown that they raise important issues about the origins of the most massive galaxies and their central black holes in the early Universe. |
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