Monsters in miniature
Could feedback from active galactic nuclei play an important role in the smallest of galaxies?
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Ryan Hickox
This year, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is celebrating its 20-year legacy. Dr. Ryan Hickox of Dartmouth College will explain how the resulting discoveries have shaped our view of the high-energy universe in his plenary talk at #AAS233.
Practical tips for setting up a research project, or “Things I wish I had known when I started my PhD”: Part 2
Advice, learned the hard way, for a well-organised research project! These tips can help keep your code tidy. Part 2 of 2.
Practical tips for setting up a research project, or “Things I wish I had known when I started my PhD”: Part 1
There are lots of tricks to help keep a research project organised – this post may save you from learning them the hard way! Part 1 of 2.
Feeding black holes, up close and personal
Do we really understand how black holes grow? Using new methods to run high resolution simulations, the authors of this paper investigate the evolution of gas near a supermassive black hole – and their results have serious implications for the models commonly used in cosmological simulations.