A puppy chasing its tail: The Event Horizon Telescope’s observations of Sgr A*, part 2
Yesterday, the Event Horizon Telescope released a second ever image of a black hole. Here’s what they found.
90 years in the making: The Event Horizon Telescope’s observations of Sgr A*, part 1
Yesterday, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. But how did we get to this point?
A Missing Link Between High-Redshift Galaxies and Quasars
Where do quasars come from? Today’s authors report a new observation that helps shed light on this mystery!
The Case of the Missing Black Hole
A rare triple system consisting of two stars and a black hole was thought to be in our cosmic backyard. Can new observations from the ESO make the black hole vanish into thin air?
Interpreting The Relics of Stellar Burials
The authors of today’s paper seek to uncover what is occulted in the final moments of a massive star’s death. To this end, they outline the feasibility of measuring the background flux of “relic neutrinos” and connect them to their origins.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter My Accretion Disk
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain…” -Dante’s Inferno… and AGN, apparently