Looking through the eccentricity pinhole
Only a tiny fraction of black hole binaries produce gravitational waves with measurable eccentricity. What does the eccentricity distribution tell us about how these binaries formed?
Feeding Time at the AGN Zoo
How do the eating habits (accretion) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) affect the light emitted for animals in the AGN zoo?
A Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Eating a Star
For the first time, a supermassive black hole is discovered away from its galaxy’s center, exposed when it tears apart a star in a tidal disruption event.
Attack of the Planet-Killer Dark Matter
Today’s bite explores exoplanets’ newest predator: dark matter. Black holes made up of dark matter may be lying at the hearts of planets…and eating them from the inside out.
What happens when you poke a black hole?
Can a sneezing ant destroy a black hole? Regge and Wheeler set out to find out.
Primordial Black Holes lensing my Andromeda Galaxy? It could be more common than you think
We’re not sure if Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) exist, but today’s authors might have seen evidence of them while observing the Andromeda Galaxy — and not just one PBH, but twelve!