Rapid Microlensing Classification: A Lonely SOBH Story
Today’s paper explores how we can use simulations of stellar populations to rapidly estimate the identity of the lensing object in a microlensing event.
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Garbage [priors] in, garbage [posteriors] out: The importance of astrophysics in tests of general relativity
Before you fit your favourite models to some data, you should know something about your parameters beforehand! Find out why in today’s article
I Want to Know What Gravity Is
In my life, there’s been hunger and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Can’t stop now, I’ve orbited so far
To change this lonely life…
Could Stripped Stars be False Positives in the Search for the Missing Black Holes?
The authors of today’s article argue that stripped B-type stars could be a source of false positives in the search for quiet, stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way
The Dormant Stellar-Mass Black Hole that Actually Is
A dormant stellar mass black hole has been found, practically in our own backyard!
Gotcha! Finding Isolated Stellar Mass Black Holes
Finding isolated black holes is really tricky, since they are basically invisible. But today’s authors have managed to find one anyways, by using the great multi-tool of gravitational microlensing!