Health Warning: Neutron Star Merger High Alert!
How dangerous are kilonovae to life on Earth? Find out today!
Bursting the Hubble Trouble Bubble: Measuring H0 with Fast Radio Bursts
Do you like fast radio bursts but hate the Hubble tension? If so, then this paper showing the first measurement of the Hubble constant using FRB observations is for you!
A tale of a kilonova
Short gamma-ray bursts, extremely energetic explosions in the Universe, might be caused by the merger of two compact objects. In the two papers we discuss today, the authors test this scenario by looking for light emitted still a few days after the explosion.