UR: Over-massive Brown Dwarfs – A New Type of Stellar Object
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover Dorsa Majidi’s research on what it takes to create a new type of evolved stellar object!
Stop, Drop, and Roll: TDE Photons and Their Misleading Spectra
Today’s authors address the problems that arise when astronomers
UR: Are black hole progenitors missing in metal-poor environments?
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, read about the work by Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach on the environments in which binary black holes originate!
Paradise for Life by the AGN Light
Supermassive black holes have a really nasty reputation for rendering galaxies uninhabitable, but this perception may be misguided. It’s possible that the radiation these vast beasts release while feasting could bring forth a bounty for life as we know it. Could organisms subsist on the light of an AGN sun?
When the stars in the sky act like big pizza pies, that’s a-starspots!
Do you like your star plain or with extra pepperoni? Starspots sit on the surface of a star like the pizza toppings on a pizza, and today’s astrobite looks at how starspot coverage changes for stars at different ~slices~ of their lifetimes.