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Is One Really the Loneliest Number? Void Galaxies Compared to Their More Popular Counterparts in the Field

Is One Really the Loneliest Number? Void Galaxies Compared to Their More Popular Counterparts in the Field

by Sonja Panjkov | Apr 22, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Are the lonely galaxies in the void doing ok? Today’s bite checks in on them and sees how they’re faring compared to their more social counterparts in the field.

Gravitational Lensing Unveils an Ultramassive Black Hole In the Heart of Abell 1201

Gravitational Lensing Unveils an Ultramassive Black Hole In the Heart of Abell 1201

by Lucas Brown | Apr 5, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Measuring the mass of black holes in the centers of far away galaxies can be tricky, but today’s paper demonstrates the viability of a new method in this field: gravitational lensing!

Cool, Relaxed, but Way Out of Its Lane: The Most Distant Cooling-Flow Galaxy Cluster Yet Observed

Cool, Relaxed, but Way Out of Its Lane: The Most Distant Cooling-Flow Galaxy Cluster Yet Observed

by Delaney Dunne | Apr 3, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Galaxy clusters like to relax, but it takes most of them a long time to get there. In today’s paper, the authors have found an exception to that rule!

A new light in the cosmic Dark Age

A new light in the cosmic Dark Age

by Katherine Lee | Mar 15, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Today’s paper investigates one of the galaxies helping to drive the process of reionization.

Will it Merge? Investigating How Gas Disks Can Determine the Future of a Binary Black Hole System

Will it Merge? Investigating How Gas Disks Can Determine the Future of a Binary Black Hole System

by William Lamb | Mar 13, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Will it merge? That is the question. Today’s paper looks at if the gas disk around a black hole binary will cause the binary to eventually coalesce

Counting supermassive black hole binaries with customers at a coffee shop

Counting supermassive black hole binaries with customers at a coffee shop

by William Lamb | Feb 15, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

A short guide on how estimate the number of supermassive black hole binary mergers by measuring how loud it is at your local cafe

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