What do enormous, fabulous slugs have to do with giant galaxy formation?
Before giant galaxies, it was all slugs, mammoths, and big nebulous blobs of emission: find out why in today’s astrobite!
How to jump start a supermassive black hole
Active Galactic Nuclei are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. But what is responsible for switching on these supermassive engines?
FOCASing on the Metallicity Gradient of an Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy
Today’s authors explore a nearby analog of some of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe and measure a metallicity gradient.
Two Paths Diverged in a Cosmological Simulation: on the Formation Pathways of S0 Galaxies
Today’s bite explores the two main pathways of S0 galaxy formation, ram-pressure stripping and galaxy mergers.
Catching High Energy Photons Leaking from Holey Galaxies
Today’s paper works to catch a leak with a new technique, using resolved Lyman-alpha line profiles to gain insight into the epoch of reionization
Dust off your old galaxies, we’ve got a new discovery!
An accidental discovery of two new galaxies, hiding behind clouds of dust in the furthest reaches of the Universe.