by Mark Dodici | Jan 24, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries, PRJ
The centers of galaxies are full of all sorts of fascinating phenomena. Learn about one of the newest — discovered only in the last five years — and how it can tell us about the stars that live in these unique environments.
by Evan Lewis | Jan 2, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries
Black holes are powerful enough to rip apart stars caught in their orbit– but we’ve seen the signals from a few of these disruptive events repeat. What happens when a black hole only eats part of a star?
by Megan Masterson | Jun 28, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
How can we use the demise of an unlucky star to learn about binary supermassive black holes? Today’s paper answers that very question!
by Pranav Satheesh | Mar 9, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Find out how cosmological simulations help us probe supermassive binary black holes in today’s paper.
by Pranav Satheesh | Feb 2, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Find out what happens when a star comes too close to a binary black hole system in today’s astrobite.
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!