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The Black Hole Meet Up: EMRIs and IMRIs in the same AGN Disk
AGN disks might connect black holes across the mass spectrum in one bustling gaseous environment. As the black holes drift inward, their interactions may set the stage for both EMRIs and IMRIs in the same system.
Finding the Milky Way’s faintest and farthest friends with Rubin
Rubin will give us a wider and deeper view of the Universe than ever before. How many of the Milky Way’s tiny friends will it discover?
Can black holes light up the high redshift Universe?
…and as a follow up, could they be a candidate for dark matter?
Physics graduate students in Canada still make poverty wages
Graduate student stipends have not been keeping up with inflation.
How to Hide a Black Hole in a Hot Dog
Hot DOGs in space are more exciting than they sound. Let’s dissect the brightest one to learn how they hide black holes and some of the most extreme conditions in the universe.
Judging a red supergiant book by its cover
What does the surface of a red supergiant star look like? It’s no polarising statement to say that it has more in common with a pot of bubbling soup than you might think!
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Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Caroline Morley
Today we interview exoplanet atmosphere researcher extraordinaire Caroline Morley (@AstroCaroline) for her prize plenary talk at #AAS237!
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Sheperd Doeleman
Hear more from the Event Horizon Telescope, and the team that brought us everyone’s favorite picture of a black hole, at Dr. Sheperd Doeleman’s Rossi Prize talk at #AAS237
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Adrian Price-Whelan
Thanks to the Gaia satellite and other incredible data sources, we are in for a set of unprecedented discoveries about our galaxy over the next few years. Learn more about them at Dr. Adrian Price-Whelan’s talk at #AAS237!