How to tell if a Black Hole is making your fairy lights twinkle
Are your fairy lights being warped by a black hole this holiday season? Find out in today’s post!
Are your fairy lights being warped by a black hole this holiday season? Find out in today’s post!
Today’s paper leverages a predicted astrometric microlensing event to study an isolated white dwarf and test stellar evolution theories.
General relativity to the rescue! Today’s paper teaches us how microlensing data can be used to infer black hole natal kick velocities.
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…
The Sun will become a white dwarf. Will any Solar System planets survive?
Today’s authors work out a full orbital solution for a binary microlensing system, indicating the method’s potential to probe the mass distribution of dark objects.