UR: Data Analysis for EMRI Detection in LISA
In our latest #UndergradResearch post, check out Ava Stockman’s research on sorting out signals from noise in the LISA data challenge!
UR: Towards Solving the Puzzle of Stable, Thin Disks at High Luminosities
In our latest #UndergradResearch post, Jessica Anderson investigates how thin disks can be stable in low-mass X-ray binary systems.
Astrobites at AAS 238: Day 1
We report on Day 1 of the virtual summer AAS meeting.
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.
From Dust Bunnies to Black Holes: Oppenheimer-Snyder Collapse
In this summary of a classic paper from 1939, we look back at the very first theory of black hole formation: Oppenheimer and Snyder’s model of a spherically collapsing ball of dust.
This Black Hole Has Some Pol (arization)
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released the first image of a black hole. Now, they have new polarization measurements that probe its magnetic field.