Flashy and Fashionably Late: the Fascinating Time Lag in Blazar Flares
The authors of today’s featured paper investigated how a decades-long stakeout of a sample of blazars uncovered new insights into a serious case of cosmic “jet-lag”.
Wormholes might be more real than we thought
A new solution to Einstein’s general relativity suggests wormholes could be real and traveling through them might be possible.
Dancing with the Blazars: Variability you can groove to
In today’s paper, we explore how blazar light curves can be transformed into music and the benefits of this for both scientists and science communication.
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.