Who’s Home? A Supermassive Black Hole & its Tiny Friends
Can you spot the quasi-periodic eruptions? Come to today’s SMBH party to check out what the host galaxy has to do with these cosmic beasts!
A Light in the Dark: Looking for Bright Black Holes as Dark Matter
If extremely low-mass primordial black holes are lurking in our galaxy, they should glow white hot with Hawking radiation. Today’s authors explore whether we can use this fact to tease out their presence.
I’ve Got Some Ocean Front Property… around a White Dwarf
Stars like the Sun will eventually become white dwarfs, and some planets might hang on through the process. Today’s paper investigates whether such planets could hold onto their water.
Over the Limit: Accretion and Feedback of Early Black Holes
Merry Christmas! In today’s bite, learn how simulations of black hole accretion and feedback are informing our understanding of the evolution of the earliest black holes.
It’s Getting Hot in Here, So Take Off All Your H2O
Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface?
LISA Pathfinder: These magnetic results will attract your attention
This organized magnetic noise is so fresh, so clean.