Today’s paper presents a unified model for tidal disruption events, in which a star gets shredded by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole!
In this astrobite, astrophysicists use gravitational waves to “listen” for the presence of dark matter and infer its properties!
General relativity to the rescue! Today’s paper teaches us how microlensing data can be used to infer black hole natal kick velocities.
Today we talk black holes with Professor Erin Kara in anticipation of her plenary talk at #AAS241!
In my life, there’s been hunger and pain
I don’t know if I can face it again
Can’t stop now, I’ve orbited so far
To change this lonely life…
INTEGRAL changed our understanding of X-ray binaries, and taught us so much about our galactic home. Here’s a brief look, in awe and gratitude.