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Too big to fit? Recipes on how (not) to create the black hole binary that you find in your backyard
Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today’s bite explores how it may not have formed.
How to Grow Supermassive Black Holes
Read about how astrophysicists are modeling these cosmic “seeds” in a computer-simulated Universe.
It’s raining molecules! But planets around M-dwarfs may want to hold their “Hallelujah”.
Comets are falling. Speedometer getting low. According to today’s sources: Slow impacts are the way to go.
Is Dark Matter lurking in the infrared Background?
In today’s bite, we look at a novel way of searching for dark matter using the background of images of galaxies in infrared wavelengths.
M 82 (star)bursts onto the scene!
The latest results from the VERITAS gamma-ray telescopes hint that starburst galaxies like M 82 might help us understand where mysterious cosmic rays come from!
Cosmic Rays vs. Thermal Emission: An X-ray Showdown
Today’s paper puts forth an alternative explanation for the cause of recently detected X-ray emission around galaxies!
Beyond astro-ph
Astronomy beyond the research
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Navigating careers in astronomy
Career advice
Publish your code! The Astrophysics Source Code Library
Alice Allen writes to encourage you to post your codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library, a repository for all software used in research.
How to submit a paper
You’ve finally done it – completed your first scientific paper for publication. What do you do with it now?
Software for the Aspiring Astronomer
For many astronomers, we spend 80% of every work day parked in front of a computer screen. We code, we write, we make plots, we think, we read… all from our desk chairs. Over the last two years, I’ve found a handful of software that helps me productive and happy at my screen.