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Black Holes Grow Better With A Friend
Observations of dwarf galaxies, similar to early universe galaxies, show that a buddy galaxy can help trigger phases of rapid growth. That’s the power of friendship!
Finding “Scary Barbie”’s sisters: a new sample of ambiguous nuclear transients
Supermassive black holes are responsible for the most luminous single-event flares in the universe. Learn how we search for these ultra-energetic events.
A NICER solution for an aging X-ray telescope
From Sahana Parker: How NASA scientists, engineers and astronauts pulled off a high-stakes space telescope repair—one patch at a time!
A Miss from Gravitational Waves Off the Top Rope!
In today’s bite we watch gravitational waves come for one of astronomy’s top 5 ops: the standard cosmological model of the universe.
Watch out! There’s double-faced white dwarfs about
How can one white dwarf have two different atmospheres? Today’s authors investigate the wacky behavior of ZTF J2033 to find out.
Is AT2018cow the Black Sheep of Transient Astronomy?
Does the UV emission from the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2018cow stand out from the herd? Read today’s bite to find out.
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John Johnson on Undergraduate Research
Are you an undergraduate researcher? Read what a Caltech professor has to say about why what you’re doing is important and why you’re going to be better at it than you ever thought.
John Johnson on Graduate Admissions
Are you planning on going to grad school? Check out what the chair of the graduate admissions committee at Caltech has to say about getting into a program like his.
Postponing the Next Step: a Decision to Defer
Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez is a first year graduate student at the astronomy department of the University of Maryland, College Park. Here, she discusses her decision to defer grad school for a year and the adventures she had.