Sloshing in the Universe’s Biggest Bathtub
The centers of galaxy clusters are energetic and exciting places. Today’s paper explores why Abell 2495 is particularly exciting – it’s sloshing around!
Searching for Primordial Black Holes in our own backyard!
In this Astrobite, the authors search for primordial black holes, a dark matter candidate, by calculating the effect their gravity would have on objects in our Solar System!
You spin me right round (Like a circumbinary disk)
Check out how a circumbinary disk interacts with a supermassive black hole binary in today’s paper.
New Insights into an Old Nova
Today’s authors use the integral field spectroscopy observations to get new insights of the old RR Pictoris Nova.
Watching a Star Circle the Supermassive Drain
Black holes are powerful enough to rip apart stars caught in their orbit– but we’ve seen the signals from a few of these disruptive events repeat. What happens when a black hole only eats part of a star?
Evidence for Rrrrr-process from Neutron Star Mergers in Dwarf Galaxies
Ahoy matey! Today’s post explores the formation of rrrrrrr-process elements through short gamma ray bursts in dwarf galaxies.