by William Lamb | Oct 17, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Before you fit your favourite models to some data, you should know something about your parameters beforehand! Find out why in today’s article
by Lynnie Saade | Dec 21, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
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…
by Aldo Panfichi | Oct 3, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
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
by Yoni Brande | Sep 23, 2022 | Current Events, Daily Paper Summaries
A dormant stellar mass black hole has been found, practically in our own backyard!
by Jana Steuer | Mar 2, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
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!
by Zili Shen | Jul 10, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries
A Milky way star cluster seems to contain more than the name suggests. How do astronomers find black holes hiding amongst stars?