What’s Going On in Galaxy Clusters?
There is a lot we don’t understand about the gas in galaxy clusters. Today’s paper provides new insight using a powerful X-ray space telescope!
“Undressing” a Naked Quasar: HE0450-2958
Today’s guest post presents an investigation of HE0450-2958—a quasar with a “missing” host galaxy.
A Week Downeast, Challenging Assumptions about Galaxy Evolution
From guest authors: coverage of “New Data that Challenge Underlying Assumptions in Early Galaxy Evolution”, the first conference hosted by the choir collaboration.
Call us an Uber! My radio telescope had a bit too much plasma and now his vision’s all blurry!
Everyone has seen a star twinkle in the night sky, but did you know stars and galaxies will also twinkle if you look at them through a radio telescope? Read here to learn how our pesky Sun makes a radio astronomer’s job more challenging (and what we can do about it!).
Following up on flares: Can we spot black hole mergers in AGN disks?
In today’s Astrobite, we revisit the possibility of binary black hole mergers in AGN disks creating flares, which could have interesting implications for multimessenger astronomy and cosmology.
The Anatomy of Active Galactic Nuclei
Active Galactic Nuclei produce some of the most dazzling fireworks in the Universe. Let’s dissect one to figure out what powers them!