Snow White and the seven(teen) dwarves search for dark matter
Today’s authors use the VERITAS telescope to hunt for dark matter in the Milky Way’s satellite galaixes!
Radio summer camp! A recap of the 20th NRAO Synthesis Imaging Workshop
Have you ever wondered what graduate students do for the summer? Find out in this post beyond the arXiv!
“Barbie” Breaks Another Record: ZTF20abrbeie is the most energetic optical transient observed so far
Supermassive black holes continue to surprise: a recent extragalactic explosion proved to be the most luminous optical transient we have observed so far. Read about “Scary Barbie” and a potential explanation for her origin!
Digging down to the oldest stars: Galactic archeology in the Sagittarius dwarf cluster
What happens when we break a galaxy down to its fundamental building blocks? Today’s authors try to find out!
Could binaries grow the globular cluster family tree?
The presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters has puzzled astronomers for decades. Today’s paper investigates whether binary stellar mergers could explain this strange phenomenon!
It’s gonna blow! Chasing the next Milky Way supernova
Today’s authors analyze a star that may soon explode!