When we don’t have spectra, we can estimate the distance to a quasar by calculating its photometric redshift. Today’s authors present a new way to use the ‘flickering’ of quasars to improve these distance estimates.
Giant black holes may have hatched from cosmic eggs. What happens when we find one on our doorstep?
In this exciting new paper, our authors show that in quasars, X-ray coronas fueled by energy stolen from the accretion disk around the black hole may be responsible for the interesting ultraviolet and optical emission we see!
The Infinity Galaxy might be home to a newborn supermassive black hole that formed directly from a gas cloud instead of a star. Could this help reveal how these objects formed in the early universe?
A deep dive into the classic paper on how massive single stars die, and what it means for the evolution of the universe.
In today’s Astrobite, we revisit the possibility of binary black hole mergers in AGN disks creating flares, which could have interesting implications for multimessenger astronomy and cosmology.