Black Holes Reveal their Seeds
Astronomers have spent decades searching for seeds of the earliest black holes. Did JWST just glimpse the very first ones?
Not-So Standard Candles: How a Bias in Distance Calculations Impacts Our Understanding of Dark Energy
Today’s paper explores how a potential bias in the way we calculate the distance to galaxies impacts our understanding of dark energy.
Astronomers Hate Them! This Star Formation Ingredient Makes Clusters Look 300 Million Years Older
Like a bouncer at a nightclub, JWST is trying to figure out if some star clusters are really as old as they say they are …
Strength in Numbers: How Cloud Communities Weather Galactic Storms
Classic theory says only big clouds should survive galactic winds, but these new simulations show that’s not the whole story. Whether a cloud lives or dies depends not only on its size, but also on the environment it’s sitting in.
Bringing the Sun to Us
Today’s authors created a Sun-like plasma in a lab to study the Sun’s interior from Earth.
Spinning into the merging binary black hole family tree
Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite!