by Aldo Panfichi | May 6, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
There’s a cluster of stars near the Milky Way’s center whose distribution and age puzzles scientists. Could an intermediate-mass black hole be the light that reveals the mystery?
by Aldo Panfichi | Feb 27, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
In today’s paper, the authors analyze millimeter and submillimeter ALMA observations of a protoplanetary disk, and find kinematic signs of candidate companions within!
by William Balmer | Nov 7, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
Astronomers study the orbits of a sextuplet system, an absurdly complex arrangement of six stars in orbit around one another, in order to measure their masses once and for all.
by Aldo Panfichi | Oct 3, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries
The authors of today’s article argue that stripped B-type stars could be a source of false positives in the search for quiet, stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way
by Jenny Calahan | Mar 23, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries
Don’t jet-off just yet, today’s astrobite covers a recent paper that surveys the exciting jets of the youngest stellar objects.
by Catherine Clark | Feb 11, 2021 | Daily Paper Summaries
What does the surface of a star look like? Today’s authors observe ζ And using long-baseline interferometry to find out!