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!
Build-A-Planet Workshop: Planet Formation, One Bump at a Time
Today’s bite looks at how planets are formed in the “bumps” of protoplanetary disks.
A Ground-Up Approach to Revealing Galaxy Redshifts and their Classification
Today’s undergraduate research post by Austin Strickler discusses his work to calculate spectroscopic redshifts in galaxies.
Guest: What are Partial Tidal Disruption Events, and How Do We Find Them?
What happens when a star survives a close encounter with a massive black hole? Read more about these partial tidal disruption events in today’s bite!
Crushing, Collapsing, Combusting — How Massive Single Stars Die
A deep dive into the classic paper on how massive single stars die, and what it means for the evolution of the universe.