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How to Break Through a Wall in the Universe?
Mysterious emissions are coming from the other side of the wall in a quasar!
Collision Course – A Discussion About Life Threatening Near-Earth Objects
We know an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs – are we prepared if we find another Near Earth Object on a collision course with our planet?
Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself
We know that supermassive black holes consume almost anything that comes near them. But have you ever wondered how we know when or what they are devouring? Today’s paper provides an answer to that question as the author’s present the first confident detection of an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star. Find out what astronomers see when a supermassive black hole has star for lunch!
Make Our Galaxy Grow: Massive Disk Galaxies in the Local Universe
Major galaxy mergers are thought to be one of the main ways of producing massive elliptical galaxies. Surprisingly though, some of the most massive galaxies in the local universe have gas disks. Here’s how they might be made.
Flipping the Paradigm: How Maunakea Scholars brings Astronomy Research to the Classroom
Learn how observatories in Hawaii are giving high school students the opportunity to work with world class telescopes in today’s Beyond Bite!
Historical Flares of Sgr A*: A Polarizing Event?
The unique properties of echoed light that may illuminate what caused Sgr A* to flare up 120 years ago.
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