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Revealio! JWST Unlocks the Magic of Two Local Black Holes

Revealio! JWST Unlocks the Magic of Two Local Black Holes

by Megan Masterson | Aug 9, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

What can JWST tell us about some of the faintest supermassive black holes? Today’s paper reveals some of those secrets!

Can you tell if a star got too close to a black hole?

Can you tell if a star got too close to a black hole?

by Archana Aravindan | Jul 29, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

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

The terrible twos: the detection of a toddler black hole in the baby universe

by Sahil Hegde | Jul 6, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

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

Drop the Bass: Evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background from a Galaxy-sized Detector

by Astrobites | Jun 28, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

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

Three’s a Crowd for Stars Around SMBH Binaries

by Megan Masterson | Jun 28, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

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

A New Playing Field for Multi-(Messi)nger Black Holes Kicks

by Storm Colloms | Jun 15, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s bite kicks black holes through an accretion disk, come find out if they score!

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