The one about Blazar OJ 287
Blazar OJ 287 is our best known candidate to be an AGN with a binary black hole as a central engine. Pretty groovy, if you ask me. Plus, we might even be able to take a picture of it! Read on to learn more.
Did we just see two black holes merge?
Today’s paper describes how we may have seen light from two black holes colliding with each other.
MACHOs Find a New Weight Class to Compete In
In the past decade we have witnessed the rise and fall of primordial black holes as dark matter candidates. Today’s paper summary hints at their return in the coming decade.
TESS: Not Just a Planet Hunter
TESS is finding hundreds of planet candidates, but it might also start finding nearby black holes as well.
Here be dragons: Mapping the Mass Gap
The ‘mass gap’ is a mass range bereft of any observed neutron stars or black holes. What can gravitational waves tell us about possible inhabitants of this terra incognita?
Small black hole meets big black hole
What happens as a small black hole spirals into a supermassive black hole?