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.
A Clash of Two Titans: Why GW231123 pushes the limits of scientists’ models
Another day, another interesting LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detection! Find out why the extreme parameters of GW231123 create problems for gravitational wave modelers and may have some new information about black hole formation!
Flashy and Fashionably Late: the Fascinating Time Lag in Blazar Flares
The authors of today’s featured paper investigated how a decades-long stakeout of a sample of blazars uncovered new insights into a serious case of cosmic “jet-lag”.
Wormholes might be more real than we thought
A new solution to Einstein’s general relativity suggests wormholes could be real and traveling through them might be possible.
Dancing with the Blazars: Variability you can groove to
In today’s paper, we explore how blazar light curves can be transformed into music and the benefits of this for both scientists and science communication.