The Smallest Black Holes and Biggest Neutron Stars
This is a summary of the discovery of GW230529 by the LVK collaboration and why this observation is significant.
Catching a gamma-ray flare with the Event Horizon Telescope & friends
We have a new EHT image of a supermassive black hole, but that’s not all! Today’s paper gives us a multiwavelength view of M87 during a gamma-ray flare.
UR: Titans Dancing in the Night Sky: The Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
In this #UndergraduateResearch post, Sebastian Banaszak tells us about his search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries using simulated optical light curves.
Source Needed: Could Signal Confusion Hurt Next-Gen Gravitational Wave Detectors?
Today’s paper takes a prospective look at possible concerns for future gravitational wave observations, and finds that perhaps no concern is needed.
Timing Black Holes’ Race to Merge Using Waves on the Stochastic Sea
There’s a space race that can last hundreds of millions of years: the race for two black holes to merge. Find out how we can use the gravitational wave background as our stopwatchin today’s bite!
The Great IMBH Gig in the Sky
In today’s bite, the authors combine two types of simulations to better understand how intermediate-mass black holes might form in dense nuclear star clusters.