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How to ID some extrasolar dusty snowballs

How to ID some extrasolar dusty snowballs

by Maria Vincent | Jan 28, 2026 | Daily Paper Summaries

Exocomets are becoming more interesting, given their detections are more promising and well studied. So, naming them is of more importance now than ever. Today’s bite summarizes a paper that proposes a nomenclature for exocomets.

A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle

A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle

by Drew Lapeer | Jan 26, 2026 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s paper presents an intriguing new object, which may be a early-Universe supermassive black hole shedding its gas cocoon!

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a runaway supermassive black hole!

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a runaway supermassive black hole!

by Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas | Jan 20, 2026 | Daily Paper Summaries

Have we just discovered the first direct evidence of a runaway supermassive black hole?

Use the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Luke! The JEDIce view of a protoplanetary disc

Use the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Luke! The JEDIce view of a protoplanetary disc

by Joe Williams | Jan 1, 2026 | Daily Paper Summaries

JWST offers new insights into the vertical structure of this protoplanetary disc, special for the ambient emitting background that provides a back-light. Find out what the JEDIce program has discovered!

Did we detect the death of a primordial black hole?

Did we detect the death of a primordial black hole?

by Anavi Uppal | Dec 20, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries, PRJ

In February 2023, the KM3NeT underwater observatory observed the highest-energy neutrino ever detected. Did it come from a dying primordial black hole?

Cosmic Dawn at the Galaxy Zoo

Cosmic Dawn at the Galaxy Zoo

by Anavi Uppal | Dec 3, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries

Citizen scientists can make important contributions to the study of galaxies (like the discovery of new gravitational lenses!), and their work can also be used to train better machine learning models.

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