Filaments in the Firmament Fend Off Fiery Fury
In a galaxy cluster menaced by twin fire-breathing supermassive black holes, can some flimsy fibers blunt the carnage?
Open Up Your Eager Eyes, Because I’m Mr. Broad Line
Polarity, reversing in the plasma sea
Ending coronal shines, choking off these field lines
But it’s just the price I pay, destiny is calling me
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter My Accretion Disk
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain…” -Dante’s Inferno… and AGN, apparently
Neutron Stars are Back on the Menu, Boys!
Have you ever wondered where gold comes from? What if it came from the bits of neutron star flesh that dribbled out from a black hole’s maw as it ate the neutron star alive?
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?