Quantum mechanics won’t let me have a black hole from light, even as a little treat
Today’s bite explains why we’re not very likely to see a black hole made from light–affectionately called a kugelblitz.
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Garbage [priors] in, garbage [posteriors] out: The importance of astrophysics in tests of general relativity
Before you fit your favourite models to some data, you should know something about your parameters beforehand! Find out why in today’s article
Playing Hide and Seek with a Pulsar
Today’s authors spotted the emission from a pulsar that hasn’t been seen in almost 20 years. Why has it been hiding, and what can we learn about it?
Gravitational Waves, à la General Relativity or Scrambled?
Have any gravitational wave signals been scrambled? Today’s authors search for this beyond-general relativity effect.
The Trouble with Black Hole Wobbles
Today’s authors show that including nonlinear modes improves the black hole ringdown model and could be very important for gravitational wave data analysis.
Herald of the Change: A microlensing Jupiter-analogue spotted in K2 data portends Roman’s yield of new planets
Astronomers have just found Jupiter’s twin in a distant solar system. Their discovery technique may surprise you, and might just be the most important method for discovering Earth-like exoplanets in the next decade…