To be or not to be: central black holes in small stellar systems
Miller & Davies investigate whether central black holes should exist in low mass stellar systems such as globular clusters.
How to count stars you can’t see: the stellar IMF in distant galaxies
Van Dokkum & Conroy examane the variation of the stellar initial mass function by observing the integrated light from early-type galaxies.
Intermediate mass black holes: the elusive middle sibling
Strader et al. search for the elusive intermediate mass black holes in globular clusters.
The WISE way to deal with 2.7 million images: a public data release
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data release promises many new and exciting discoveries!
Measuring the Black Hole Mass in Markarian 6 using Reverberation Mapping
Doroshenko et al. use extensive monitoring of the continuum and broad line region luminosities of Markarian 6 to measure the central black hole mass.