Can you tell if a star got too close to a black hole?
The authors of today’s paper study emission lines in a spectrum to determine if they are caused by a star falling into a black hole!
The terrible twos: the detection of a toddler black hole in the baby universe
JWST just made one of the highest-redshift galaxies ever observed even more interesting! Check out today’s bite to see what it found!
Drop the Bass: Evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background from a Galaxy-sized Detector
In eight new papers, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications
Three’s a Crowd for Stars Around SMBH Binaries
How can we use the demise of an unlucky star to learn about binary supermassive black holes? Today’s paper answers that very question!
A New Playing Field for Multi-(Messi)nger Black Holes Kicks
Today’s bite kicks black holes through an accretion disk, come find out if they score!
Tracking Down the Quasar Light Switch
We’re still not sure what causes quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe, to switch on. Today’s authors present a compelling case for galaxy mergers being the culprit!