Building Planets Around a Black Hole
We all know planets form around stars, can planet formation occur around something much more exotic?
(s)Pinning down the origins of black hole mergers
All of the black hole mergers we’ve seen so far with LIGO/Virgo have surprised us with their mass-spin relationship. Are we misunderstanding stellar collapse? Or is there something even more exotic going on?
Is the Fault in their Stars?
Identifying the incidence of AGN as a function of star formation rate
Are AGN Quiescent Adolescents?
Is the evolution of galaxies and their AGN driven by past mergers?
Putting Supermassive Black Holes on the Scale
A novel approach to estimate their mass may help reveal the relationship between supermassive black holes and the galaxies they inhabit.
The Circle of Life… of Black Holes
Today’s post presents SIMBA, a cosmological simulation that focuses on understanding the growth and evolution of black holes and their host galaxy.