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Sagittarius A* only eats half its lunch, but where does it come from?
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from.
The Black Hole Tango: Kicks and Spins in Hierarchical Mergers
Black hole mergers may have more dance moves than we thought—recoil kicks create intricate spin distributions for black holes from hierarchical mergers.
Dark Matter Gets a Weight Check: The Strongest Lower Bound Yet
Today’s paper has come up with the an model independent way to put a lower limit on dark matter particles!
Duel of the Dual: The Mystery of a Quasar Pair
Today’s paper explores a binary quasar system that’s full of mysteries!
The April Fools Paper Review Process – 2025
There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2025 and provided some “peer review”.
Is the sigma-8 tension being sheared away? Cosmology with weak lensing from KiDS
Today’s bite looks at the final data release from the Kilo-Degree Survey, reporting a measurement of the clumpiness of the Universe as measured by weak gravitational lensing.
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Navigating careers in astronomy
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Why I won’t change my mind
The more we know the more certain we become. But do we come closer to the truth? We’d all like to believe we do, but that may not be the case. There’s a danger to that certainty. We can read the narrative we want into data, strengthening our resolve and isolating us from the arguments of others.
Astronomers Beyond Astronomy: Using Your Degree Outside of Academia
Academia isn’t the only future open to an astronomy degree. In this ‘beyond’ post, we discuss the universally-useful skills you can hone as a student, and then explore a variety of non-academic jobs where you can put those skills to good use.
Why open research practices are a clever move
An essay about open scholarly practices in science.