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MIT PhysGAAP: Here to help with your physics graduate school application
MIT’s PhysGAAP Program pairs PhD applicants with grad student mentors, and provides resources for navigating the grad school application process. Apply by Nov. 11th!
Knock, knock. Who’s there? A free floating planet!
Not that long ago, in a system not too far away, a free-floating planet pays a visit… to HD 106906, a binary star system with an exoplanet and a debris disk!
Tracing back the origin of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
See how astronomers rewind the orbits of Galactic Globular Clusters and find out where they came from!
A Stellar ‘Light Switch’ Orbiting a Black Hole
Today’s authors investigate the sudden re-appearance of X-ray emission from a star being eaten by a supermassive black hole!
A Machine Learning View of Supernova GWs
How does one measure the gravitational wave signal of a supernova if each event is unique? Is machine learning up to the task? Or is it unknowable?
Could Stripped Stars be False Positives in the Search for the Missing Black Holes?
The authors of today’s article argue that stripped B-type stars could be a source of false positives in the search for quiet, stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way
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