Pulling Back the Curtain on the Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes
How do supermassive black holes get to be so supermassive? Today’s authors explore how we might be able to answer that question with the SKA pulsar timing array!
Open Up Your Eager Eyes, Because I’m Mr. Broad Line
Polarity, reversing in the plasma sea
Ending coronal shines, choking off these field lines
But it’s just the price I pay, destiny is calling me
Big, bright, bursty, AND early: what are the odds?
Just how rare is this hyperluminous heavily obscured active galactic nucleus in a dusty starburst in the early Universe?
A Missing Link Between High-Redshift Galaxies and Quasars
Where do quasars come from? Today’s authors report a new observation that helps shed light on this mystery!
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter My Accretion Disk
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain…” -Dante’s Inferno… and AGN, apparently
A serving of X-rays in a stack of galaxies
Quiescent galaxy pancakes are filled with berry jam across cosmic time, and other lessons from galaxy stacking