Seeing Stars: Juicing up JWST with 5000x Magnification
We pointed JWST at a galaxy magnified 5000 times by the universe–what did we learn by seeing the unseeable?
Deblurring the Dark Compact Object Picture with Microlensing
Lenses aren’t always made of glass, sometimes they’re made of dark matter compact objects! Today’s paper explores if and how we can tell primordial black holes apart from dark black holes using gravitational microlensing measurements.
MeerKAT meets a giga-maser!
Space is full of unusual and (sometimes) quite powerful phenomena that cause light to behave in unexpected ways. Maser systems are one of these phenomena. The MeerKAT Radio Telescope recently detected the most luminous and distant hydroxyl (or OH) maser system – so intense it crossed the threshold from “mega-maser” to “giga-maser”. Discover why this system is so remarkable in this bite!
Primordial Black Holes lensing my Andromeda Galaxy? It could be more common than you think
We’re not sure if Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) exist, but today’s authors might have seen evidence of them while observing the Andromeda Galaxy — and not just one PBH, but twelve!
Black Holes Reveal their Seeds
Astronomers have spent decades searching for seeds of the earliest black holes. Did JWST just glimpse the very first ones?
1,339 of These Are Not Like the Others: Uncovering Anomalies in Hubble Imaging
How do you search through 99.6 million images for weird and interesting galaxies? Instead of wasting years of your life doing it manually, you can use AnomalyMatch.