Editing Martin Rees (section)

== Research ==
Rees is the author of more than 500 research papers.<ref name="scopus">{{Scopus id}}</ref> He is an author of books on [[astronomy]] and science intended for the lay public and gives many public lectures and broadcasts. In 2010 he was invited to deliver the [[Reith Lectures]] for the [[BBC]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – The Reith Lectures, Martin Rees – Scientific Horizons, The Scientific Citizen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sj9lh |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> now published as ''From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons''.

Rees has made contributions to the origin of [[cosmic microwave background radiation]], as well as to [[galaxy]] clustering and formation. His studies of the distribution of [[quasar]]s challenged the now-rejected [[steady state theory]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lord Martin Rees |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/lord-martin-rees/ |access-date=2024-10-13 |website=Academy of Achievement |language=en-US}}</ref> He was one of the first to propose that enormous [[black hole]]s power quasars,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rees|first1=M.J.|doi=10.1146/annurev.aa.22.090184.002351|title=Black Hole Models for Active Galactic Nuclei|journal=Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=22|pages=471–506|year=1984|bibcode=1984ARA&A..22..471R}}</ref> and that [[Faster-than-light|superluminal]] astronomical observations can be explained as an [[optical illusions|optical illusion]] caused by an object moving partly in the direction of the observer.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rees|first1=M.J.| title=Appearance of Relativistically Expanding Radio Sources|doi=10.1038/211468a0|journal=Nature|volume=211|issue=5048|pages=468–70|year=1966|bibcode=1966Natur.211..468R|s2cid=41065207}}</ref>

Since the 1990s, Rees has worked on [[gamma-ray bursts]], especially in collaboration with [[Péter Mészáros]],<ref name=Meszaros>{{cite journal |title=Tidal heating and mass loss in neutron star binaries – Implications for gamma-ray burst models|first1=P.|last1=Meszaros|first2=M. J.|last2=Rees|year=1992|issue=10|pages=570|journal=[[Astrophysical Journal]]|volume=397|bibcode=1992ApJ...397..570M|doi=10.1086/171813}}</ref> and on how the "cosmic dark ages" ended when the first stars formed. Since the 1970s he has been interested in [[Anthropic principle|anthropic]] reasoning, and the possibility that our visible universe is part of a vaster "[[multiverse]]".<ref name=Carr>{{cite journal |title=The anthropic principle and the structure of the physical world|first1=B. J.|last1=Carr|first2=M. J.|last2=Rees|year=1979|issue=5705|pages=605–612|journal=Nature| volume=278| doi=10.1038/278605a0| bibcode=1979Natur.278..605C|s2cid=4363262}}</ref><ref name=Hawking>{{cite book |title=Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others |author=Martin J. Rees |publisher=Perseus Books |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-7382-0033-0}}</ref>