by Megan Masterson | Jan 30, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s paper presents a unified model for tidal disruption events, in which a star gets shredded by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole!
by Sanjana Curtis | Dec 5, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
The ‘mass gap’ is a mass range bereft of any observed neutron stars or black holes. What can gravitational waves tell us about possible inhabitants of this terra incognita?
by Kaitlyn Shin | Apr 12, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
Recently, the world saw the first-ever images of a black hole’s shadow. Future images could be sharper with space-based telescopes!
by Susanna Kohler | Oct 7, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
Messier 87 (M87) is a giant elliptical galaxy that is best known for its spectacular, 5000-ly-long jet. In this paper, the authors develop models of M87 based on general relativistic numerical simulations and make predictions for the future direct observations of the black hole event horizon that may be possible.