A Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Eating a Star
For the first time, a supermassive black hole is discovered away from its galaxy’s center, exposed when it tears apart a star in a tidal disruption event.
Shaken and Stirred: Putting the Local Group on a weighing scale.
The “timing argument” overestimates the total mass of the local group by oversimplifying it to a two body problem, a new study explore how the complex merger history of objects in the group affect its mass estimates.
There’s a great wave rippling through our galaxy
The dynamics of our galaxy become evermore complicated as today’s authors discover a mysterious wave propagating out towards its outskirts.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Clumps and Inward Migration
Something is missing in the middle. In JWST JADES galaxies, young clumps drop out in the inner regions, while clump structure shifts from the outskirts to the center.
Where have all the AGN gone?
Astronomers think active black holes may play a role in shutting down star formation, but today’s study suggests that the story is more complicated than we thought.
Distant Galaxies: Dead or in Disguise?
Are some of the most massive galaxies in the early Universe truly quenched, or just hiding their star formation behind dust? Today’s bite explores how ALMA helps solve this cosmic conundrum.