Welcome to the sci-art gallery for nam 2022

Our gallery contains art submitted by researchers all over the UK, displayed at the Sci-Art at NAM 2022. Accompanying each piece is a caption from the artist. Stay as long as you like!

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

A Painting of a Black Hole with an Accretion Disc, First Illustrated for the SITARE Workshop in 2019.

The spiralling bands of the disc were drawn to evoke a labyrinthine feeling, where once you fall into a black hole, you can no longer climb out.

Artistic rendition of a black hole low-mass x-ray binary.

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

An Artistic Liberty Painting of a Black-Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binary (BH LMXB).

The polar jet shot out from the black hole is coloured to correspond to real data on its synchrotron radiation. As you move along, the jet becomes optically thin at gradually longer wavelengths, and thus shines in different colours. (Paice et al. 2019)

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

A Black Widow is a binary system with a neutron star feeding off a companion star. Occasionally material stops being accreted, and instead launches incredible outflows which ablate the star that fed it.

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

A black widow pulsar is so bright that it casts a shadow on the backside of its companion star, while its fierce outflows ablate away the surface it feeds from.

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

MAXI J1820+070 is a 'Low-Mass X-ray Binary' system with a black hole eight times the mass of out sun. In 2021, we found that it features a warped accretion disc (Thomas at all., 2021), which is full of matter it's pulled off its companion star. These systems are so bright that they cast shadows on the star, and so massive that they distort the star as they drag material from its surface.

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

Despite only being 24 km in radius - meaning it would fit neatly inside the M25 - this black hole has enough mass to drag its companion star into an egg shape and pull its material into a vast accretion disc. Based on real data (Paice et al. 2019), this illustration shows the scale of the accretion disc, and the fierce jets that fly from its poles.

John a. paice (he/They)

University of Manchester

Swift J1357.2-0933 is a puzzling system - exceedingly faint in X-rays, and also featuring curious dips in the optical that aren't seen at higher frequencies. For a black hole X-ray binary like this, it raised many questions, especially when it was later found that the dips were mainly at red wavelengths, and much weaker at blue wavelengths (Paice et al. 2019). Building on work from Corral-Santana et al. 2013, we postulated that the system has odd vertical extensions in its accretion disc that temporarily occlude the redder inner regions, while failing to sufficiently occlude a diffuse X-ray corona.

Brandon Rajkumar (he/him)

University of the West Indies

brcreations on Instagram

Personification of the Solar System and Beyond

Miti patel (she/her)

University of Leicester

@MitiPatel15 on Twitter

Acrylic Painting on Canvas of a Starry Night

Miti patel (she/her)

University of Leicester

@MitiPatel15 on Twitter

Acrylic Painting on Canvas of a Spiral Galaxy

robert walsh (he/him)

University of Central Lancashire

www.seethesun.org #seethesun on socials

A Large Immersive Art Installation. The SUN displays 10 weeks of the Sun's life in 12.5 minutes projected onto a 7-metre wide sphere. The SUN installation will be visiting NAM and can be seen Monday to Wednesday in Butterworth Hall in the Arts Centre. Tickets are free but essential, and available at

https://www.resonatefestival.co.uk/whats-on

Rosie Hodnett (she/her)

University of Leicester

Mercury

Watercolour, 2019

Soheb Mandhai (he/him)

University of Manchester

@TheAstroPhoenix on Twitter and Instagram

3D Volumetric Renders of Nebulae Like Structures

soheb mandhai (he/him)

University of Manchester

@TheAstroPhoenix on Twitter and Instagram

A Cosy Island for Observing

Made in 3D

soheb mandhai (he/him)

University of Manchester

@TheAstroPhoenix on twitter and instagram

A Visualisation of the Surface of Enceladus.

Completed in 3D.

soheb mandhai (he/him)

University of Manchester

@TheAstroPhoenix on Twitter and Instagram

A Spidery Pulsar Devouring its Companion

hira fatima (she/her)

University of Karachi

Beauty of the Solar Eclipse 21st June 2020 Under a Tree

Laurence Datrier (she/her)

University of Glasgow

@asleepywanderer on Twitter @sleepywanderer_art on Instagram

The Heart Nebula

Digital, Procreate

Laurence Datrier (she/her)

University of Glasgow

@asleepywanderer on Twitter @sleepywanderer_art on Instagram

A Mock Retro Travel Poster for the LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington State

Digital, Procreate

Laurence Datrier (she/her)

University of Glasgow

@asleepywanderer on Twitter @sleepywanderer_art on Instagram

The Earth at Night

Acrylic

Laurence Datrier (she/her)

University of Glasgow

@asleepywanderer on Twitter @sleepywanderer_art on Instagram

A Gif Showing the Rotor of a Newtonian Calibrator. These can be used for calibrating gravitational wave detectors. This gif is based on the newtonian calibrator prototyped at LIGO Hanford.