The Bullet Cluster – A Smoking Gun for Dark Matter!
A classic paper on dark matter is brought to ‘light’ in this bite, discussing a discovery that provides one of the best evidences we have for non-baryonic matter in the universe.
‘One Direction’ – Isotropic Universe or not?
Isotropy, and by extension the Cosmological Principle, is tested to its limits, by a new modeling study of CMB fluctuations from PLANCK. Are groundbreaking results seen?
The Trouble with H0 (or not?)
Theres trouble brewing in the field of cosmology, as astrophysicists attempt to understand the latest measurements of the Hubble constant.
Our Cosmology and The Big Picture: An Interview with Sean Carroll
Astrobites interviews Sean Carroll, one of the leading theoretical cosmologists of our time, about our universe, his new book and everything in between.
Reviewing Fantastic Beasts: AGN Feedback in Galaxies and Clusters
The author revisits a seminal article that reviews our understanding of AGN feedback, and comes out extremely impressed with the status quo (and the parallels with fictional universes).