Too big to fit? Recipes on how (not) to create the black hole binary that you find in your backyard
Curious about how Gaia BH3 formed? We have the next best thing! Today’s bite explores how it may not have formed.
A Miss from Gravitational Waves Off the Top Rope!
In today’s bite we watch gravitational waves come for one of astronomy’s top 5 ops: the standard cosmological model of the universe.
Giving Justice to Intermediate Mass Black Hole Mergers!
How can we find the gravitational waves that form when an IMBH and SMBH merge? Read ahead to find out how we can prepare to detect these supposedly common mergers using LISA!
Tuning Black Hole Data for LISA to Hear
In today’s Astrobite, the authors create a mock massive black hole data set to test whether their LISA analysis pipeline can recover their mock data.
How Long Until the Next Kilonova? Should We Keep Gravitational Wave Detectors Going??
Should gravitational wave observatories continue looking for kilonovae? How can we best plan our upgrades to these observatories to optimize our search for these objects?
Can we perform a Supernova Autopsy Via Gravitational Waves?
In this Astrobite, the authors try to solve the mystery of what happens to the corpse of a supernova post-explosion: black hole or neutron star?