UR #28: Photometry and Analysis of a Sample of Quasars on Archival Yerkes Observatory Photographic Plates
Today’s guest post looks at the work of undergraduate physics student Buduka Ogonor on using astronomical photographic plates to study quasars.
Active Galactic Bulbs: Tracking Glowing Quasars
Tracing X-ray variability in quasars.
UR #22: FeLoNet: Using Synthetic Training Data and a Convolutional Neural Network to Classify Quasar Spectra
Today’s undergraduate research post is on very unique quasars — and how to find them!
The Hidden Mechanism of Quasar Feedback
Galactic winds shed new light on an otherwise invisible mechanism at the heart of massive galaxies.
In the heart of a trainwreck galaxy: potential for future gravitational waves
Could a suspicious pair of active black holes improve the outlook for seeing the gravitational wave background?
Feeding black holes, up close and personal
Do we really understand how black holes grow? Using new methods to run high resolution simulations, the authors of this paper investigate the evolution of gas near a supermassive black hole – and their results have serious implications for the models commonly used in cosmological simulations.