What to Do When You’re Stuck
A handy guide from 1945!
Like a Captured Stone: How did Pluto Settle in its Peculiar Orbit?
We dive back into one of the earliest studies of the outer solar system that helped us understand how four gas giants playing a chaotic game of catch could have knocked Pluto into its topsy-turvy orbit.
Looking back at the Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar
We revisit the discovery of the binary pulsar and it’s important impact on modern astronomy and astrophysics.
Astrophysical Classics: A Burst of Inspiration
The year is 1978. Some people are wondering how star formation works in weird-looking galaxies.
What is the Most Massive Object in the Universe?
Trying to find the most massive galaxy cluster in the night sky can be hard. Comparing predictions of these masses to observed clusters? Even harder. An insight into the world of Halo Mass Functions and their tail-ends.
Astrophysical Classics: The Lost Art of Fishing in a Black Hole
In a strange, half-lost, piece of work Roger Penrose draws four figures dropping their lines into the depths of a black hole, and in doing so finds a new and hugely influential way to steal energy away from the heart of a spinning singularity.