Half of all stars are in binaries. Stars that end their lives as the most massive white dwarfs often also have another distant star orbiting an inner binary. Could these tertiary stars play a role in merging the inner binaries into remnant objects that emit fast radio bursts?
In February 2023, the KM3NeT underwater observatory observed the highest-energy neutrino ever detected. Did it come from a dying primordial black hole?
Just when you think exoplanet demographics can’t get any weirder, this thing shows up. A hot Jupiter with a thing for carbon that may have been a star but now lives with a dead one. Confused? Read today’s bite.
Today’s bite zooms in on nearby galaxies to understand how they impact future stellar nurseries and (maybe) suppress star formation.
Light is composed of an electromagnetic wave, encoding information about its specific orientation. Learn how observing polarized optical light from one of the most extreme types of events in the universe enables us to study the origin of its light!
Astronomers have observed the abundance of heavy water (D2O) in the V883 Ori disc, providing a crucial insight into the history of water – with some implications for Earth’s water and maybe more…