A day in the lives of astronomy grad students
What do grad students do all day? Read on for more than a dozen personal reports from the field.
Mind the (Black Hole Mass) Gap
You might think that stars with an approximately continuous distribution of masses would lead to remnants with an approximately continuous distribution masses. But you’d be wrong.
The Many Modes of Black Hole Accretion
New simulations explore the mechanisms by which black holes grow.
Finding the Helium Flash
Just as seismologists determine the structure of the Earth through surface vibrations, so asteroseismologists do the same for stars