How to tell if a Black Hole is making your fairy lights twinkle
Are your fairy lights being warped by a black hole this holiday season? Find out in today’s post!
The bright future for Neutron Star–Black Hole mergers
Today’s authors discuss prospects for observing neutron star – black hole mergers in multiple messengers!
Under (Magnetic) Arrest? Possible Evidence for a Previously-Theorized type of Black Hole Accretion Disk
Today’s authors analyze the time delay between energetic flares coming from a black hole x-ray binary system, and try to determine if this is evidence of a magnetic process occuring in the accretion disk.
Galactic Jets in Motion: Unveiling the Dance of Cosmic Ghosts
Plasma jets, emerging from a galaxy’s central black hole, sometimes bend in the same direction, forming head-tail structures. A recent study investigated two such galaxies found in unexpectedly close proximity, resembling a peculiar ‘dancing ghost’-like structure in the sky.
JWST’s Supermassive Implications for Black Hole Seeds and Galaxy Co-Evolution
How do distant supermassive black holes affect their host galaxies? And how were they formed? Today’s paper explores these questions with a sample distant SMBHs discovered by JWST!
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Garbage [priors] in, garbage [posteriors] out: The importance of astrophysics in tests of general relativity
Before you fit your favourite models to some data, you should know something about your parameters beforehand! Find out why in today’s article