Speedy stars reveal a satellite’s supermassive secret
By rewinding the orbits of hypervelocity stars, today’s authors discover something unusual about the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy.
Hungry Hungry Nova
Today’s bite features the beautiful red nova, ZTF SLRN-2020, and how its beauty may be the dying breath of a planet.
Neutron Star Limbo: How Low Can Their Masses Go?
Simulations reveal how a surprisingly low-mass neutron star might have formed–and what that means for supernova theory.
Sagittarius A* only eats half its lunch, but where does it come from?
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have been disrupting the lives of many binaries. Today’s bite explores where those binaries came from.
Here There Be (Star-Filled) Dragons
Today’s paper explores how JWST was able to observe 44 individual stars in a galaxy eight and a half billion light years away!
The Dark Matter Redemption Arc for Neutron Star Equations of State
Could dark matter be shaping neutron star properties from the shadows?