Backyard Black Holes
Little Red Dots have been thought to be mysterious early universe objects but today’s bite tells us that they could exist much closer to home.
A Merger is Not a Meal: How to Feed Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
How did supermassive black holes in the early universe get so massive? Today’s bite uses simulations to investigate whether galaxy mergers can help beef up black holes.
The Universe’s Most Wanted Black Holes Finally Have an Alibi
GW231123 defies our best models of stellar collapse, hosting two black holes that shouldn’t exist. A new paper proposes a radical solution: these monsters may have been born in the early universe as primordial black holes, quietly feeding for billions of years until they became the record-breakers we detected today.
Black hole accretion? More like, can I get a-reason this X-ray binary looks like that?
Black hole accretion must be SANE or MAD, right? Maybe not…read to learn more!
Little Red Dots and Shaq’s Huge Feet
Little Red Dots may just be the Shaqs of the galaxy world: extreme and impressive, but not a new kind of object.
Guest: A Wandering Massive Black Hole
Tidal disruption events can happen when stars are torn apart by a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. Guest author, Mary Ogborn, explains how tidal disruption events can help us see when supermassive black holes wander away from their galaxy’s centre.