Written in the Stars: the Moment our Galaxy Began Boiling
Today’s authors use stellar chemistry and kinematics to identify the moment our Milky Way cooked up its disk.
Twinkle, twinkle, highest redshift star; how we wonder what you are!
What do mythology, Tolkien, and astrophysics have in common?
Giraffes exist, and Unicorns too!
What do giraffes and unicorns have in common with red giant binary systems? Find out in today’s bite!
Going with the Tide: Does tidal dissipation play an important role in stellar/black hole mergers?
In today’s paper: how does tidal dissipation and gravitational wave emission affect the result of encounters between stars and black hole binaries in stellar clusters?
A home has secrets too…
We don’t talk about accretion disks enough, but they hide so much physics in them! The authors of today’s paper try to understand which physical effect wins in circumbinary disks!
HEAVY, BUT NOT METAL: Could Metal-Free Stars be the Source of Massive Black Hole Mergers?
In today’s paper, the authors test the theory that the earliest, metal-poorest stars are the primary source of binary black hole mergers.