Leaving on a jet stream
Through tangled magnetic fields, super massive black holes and at least one otter, we explore how the phenomenal jets launched from the centre of galaxies are created.
Guide to Empirical Velocity Laws
There are some papers that present relations that are important enough to get their own names. This astrobite presents three relations that have a remarkable similar shape, namely the Faber-Jackson, Tully-Fisher and M-sigma relations.
Dinnertime for an Active Galaxy
A star being swallowed by a black hole, and with an unusual host galaxy.
Reviewing Fantastic Beasts: AGN Feedback in Galaxies and Clusters
The author revisits a seminal article that reviews our understanding of AGN feedback, and comes out extremely impressed with the status quo (and the parallels with fictional universes).
Studying the First Stars with Gravitational Waves
What can aLIGO tell us about the earliest stars? Read today’s astrobite to find out!
Globular clusters as gravitational wave factories
The dense environments in the center of globular clusters lead to an abundance of binary black hole mergers, potentially detectable by LIGO.