Run, Boy, Run, This Galaxy Is Not Meant for You!
A mysterious streak appears in Hubble images. Could it be the starry wake left behind by an ejected black hole?
Counting supermassive black hole binaries with customers at a coffee shop
A short guide on how estimate the number of supermassive black hole binary mergers by measuring how loud it is at your local cafe
Smashing stellar nurseries together to see if they survive
Galaxy mergers are violent places, which makes simulating their effects on fragile molecular clouds very difficult. The authors of today’s paper manage to do it anyway!
Mass + metals + making history = constraining the mass-metallicity relation with JWST
Investigating the physical properties of galaxies is key to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. With the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to investigate properties of huge numbers of galaxies in the early Universe.
A New Look at Gamma-Rays From Our Galaxy’s Next-Door Neighbour
Today’s authors take a new look at gamma-ray emission from Andromeda to find that it looks pretty different from what was found before!
It’s Full of Stars: The Mysterious Heart of the Phantom Galaxy
JWST reveals the strange and starry secrets within the heart of the Phantom Galaxy