In today’s paper: how does tidal dissipation and gravitational wave emission affect the result of encounters between stars and black hole binaries in stellar clusters?
The quest for the true nature of gravity continues! Can gravitational waves help us find the right answer? Today’s paper describes how this could work.
In today’s paper, the authors test the theory that the earliest, metal-poorest stars are the primary source of binary black hole mergers.
Finding isolated black holes is really tricky, since they are basically invisible. But today’s authors have managed to find one anyways, by using the great multi-tool of gravitational microlensing!
Today’s paper uses radio observations to look for gold in special supernovae!
Have you ever wondered where gold comes from? What if it came from the bits of neutron star flesh that dribbled out from a black hole’s maw as it ate the neutron star alive?