Guest: What are Partial Tidal Disruption Events, and How Do We Find Them?
What happens when a star survives a close encounter with a massive black hole? Read more about these partial tidal disruption events in today’s bite!
Eating Up the Competition: Super-Competitive Accretion in Early Star Clusters
Some of the first clusters of stars may have had massive cannibal stars! Learn more in today’s bite.
Splish, Splash: Taking a bath in the cool gas of the circumgalactic medium
How is a galaxy like a bathtub? Today’s authors use quasars to light up the gas around galaxies.
Crushing, Collapsing, Combusting — How Massive Single Stars Die
A deep dive into the classic paper on how massive single stars die, and what it means for the evolution of the universe.
Clearing up our FOGGIE Understanding of how UVB Models Affect Circumgalactic Medium Absorbers
Today’s paper explores how ionization from different UVB models affects mock observations from simulations of the Circumgalactic Medium.
Bumpy road ahead: can binary interactions make supernovae periodically brighter?
Some supernovae have bumpy light curves – could a baby neutron star repeatedly diving into the envelope of its inflated companion be the cause? Today’s authors simulate this to find out!