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You spin me right round (Like a circumbinary disk)

You spin me right round (Like a circumbinary disk)

by Pranav Satheesh | Jan 4, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries

Check out how a circumbinary disk interacts with a supermassive black hole binary in today’s paper.

Watching a Star Circle the Supermassive Drain

Watching a Star Circle the Supermassive Drain

by Evan Lewis | Jan 2, 2024 | Daily Paper Summaries

Black holes are powerful enough to rip apart stars caught in their orbit– but we’ve seen the signals from a few of these disruptive events repeat. What happens when a black hole only eats part of a star?

Continued analysis on the continuous search for continuous waves (continued)

Continued analysis on the continuous search for continuous waves (continued)

by William Lamb | Oct 12, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have!

Sowing the CEERS of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Sowing the CEERS of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe

by Sarah Bodansky | Sep 20, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

How did supermassive black holes grow in the early universe? Finding faint and distant AGN with JWST may help us unravel this mystery!

Twinkle twinkle trail of stars, how I wonder what you are?

Twinkle twinkle trail of stars, how I wonder what you are?

by Pranav Satheesh | Aug 17, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

What are the origins of this mysterious stellar streak ? Could it be a wake left behind by a rogue black hole or something else entirely ?

Gardens of the Galaxy: Has JWST Confirmed the Existence of Heavy Supermassive Black Hole Seeds?

Gardens of the Galaxy: Has JWST Confirmed the Existence of Heavy Supermassive Black Hole Seeds?

by Lucas Brown | Aug 15, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries

A recent observation of an extremely distant quasar sheds some (X-ray) light on the long-standing mystery of supermassive black hole formation.

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