The search for the first stars to light up the Universe
One of JWST’s aims is to find the very first stars in the Universe – but is it up to the task?
And I’m Free, Free-Floatin’… or am I?
TESS was designed to find transiting planets. Today’s authors use TESS to search for free-floating planets via gravitational lensing and find a candidate event.
Don’t disturb the baby! A black hole discovered to be born quietly
This black hole could have been born without any bright supernova explosion, emitting nothing but a few neutrinos in its formation. Find out how we can tell in today’s paper!
Unsure if it is a really massive black hole? Take an X-ray scan!
Are these little red galaxies hosting supermassive black holes? Take an X-ray look at them to find out!
Too Many Stars, Too Fast?
Today’s bite talks about an interesting class of galaxies that may be forming an unthinkable amount of stars super early in the universe.
It’s over 4000! This supermassive black hole has gone Super-Eddington!
New discovery alert! This supermassive black hole is accreting way above the Eddington limit. Find out more about this interesting object in today’s bite.