UR: A study of photon spheres around spherically symmetric and non-rotating black holes
Today’s undergraduate research post features the work of Vrunda Macwan on black holes!
A CURE for Undergraduate Research Inequities?
Today’s article explores how the prevailing structure of undergraduate research experiences systematically excludes some groups of students, and one possible solution to making research more accessible and equitable.
UR: Titans Dancing in the Night Sky: The Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
In this #UndergraduateResearch post, Sebastian Banaszak tells us about his search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries using simulated optical light curves.
UR: Modeling Asteroids and Using Microwave Telescope Data to Constrain Thermophysical Properties
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Mariah Jones and her collaborators used data from the South Pole Telescope to constrain the thermal properties of an asteroid!
UR: Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos: To Collapse or to Not?
As part of our Undergraduate Research series, Neev Shah explores how alternative dark matter models describe the evolution of galaxies.
UR: Simulating Interactions with Lunar Rocks
For today’s Undergrad Research submission, an undergraduate at U of Georgia is simulating collisions on the Moon’s surface to investigate how water could have been produced there.