Sloshing in the Universe’s Biggest Bathtub
The centers of galaxy clusters are energetic and exciting places. Today’s paper explores why Abell 2495 is particularly exciting – it’s sloshing around!
Peering at stellar streams through a myrmecological magnifying glass
Today’s authors try to use the behavior of ants to model streams of stars in our galaxy!
Two SMCs are Better than One
Today’s paper explores the recent exciting discovery that the SMC is actually composed of two distinct star-forming systems.
UR: Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos: To Collapse or to Not?
As part of our Undergraduate Research series, Neev Shah explores how alternative dark matter models describe the evolution of galaxies.
Memoirs of a Galaxy
Today’s bite explores how we can look at the stellar haloes of galaxies to reconstruct their past merger and accretion events.
Galactic Jets in Motion: Unveiling the Dance of Cosmic Ghosts
Plasma jets, emerging from a galaxy’s central black hole, sometimes bend in the same direction, forming head-tail structures. A recent study investigated two such galaxies found in unexpectedly close proximity, resembling a peculiar ‘dancing ghost’-like structure in the sky.