2 Fast 2 Furious (for an AGN flare)
Today’s authors take a look at (possibly) the brightest flare from a supermassive black hole that we’ve ever seen!
Baby Galaxies Love to Take 100 Million Year Naps
Today’s paper investigates the star-forming histories of early galaxies and finds that galaxies form their stars in bursts, interspersed with lulls.
Live Fast, Die Young, Bad Gals Do it Well
In this Astrobite, we see if ancient aged galaxies spell trouble for cosmology!
Supernovae in the Super-Early Universe
Today’s bite explores the star formation history of galaxies in the early universe using chemical signals of stellar deaths.
Galaxy Clusters: Your Home for Wings. Lensing. Dark Matter.
Gravitational lensing is a natural result and unique feature of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It is also an important instrument in the cosmologist’s toolkit. Today’s paper highlights one way astronomers are using gravitational lensing to study dark matter.
Finding a stream in the stellar tide
Stellar streams are exciting probes of galaxy evolution, and today’s authors are confident we’ll soon be able to find even more!