Hot Zombie Stars in Your Area
All that remains of a weak supernova now discovered in the Milky Way!
A Fast, Blue “Koala” Shines Bright in a Distant Galaxy
Relativistic Koalas in space?? What a trip!
Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself
We know that supermassive black holes consume almost anything that comes near them. But have you ever wondered how we know when or what they are devouring? Today’s paper provides an answer to that question as the author’s present the first confident detection of an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star. Find out what astronomers see when a supermassive black hole has star for lunch!
Using a Random Forest to Classify ASAS-SN Variable Stars
ASAS-SN searches for supernova and finds variable stars too! They found so many (~90,000) that they decided to classify them all. How do you go about classifying 90,000 things? Machine learning, of course!
How to Read (LSS)Tea Leaves to Better Understand Dark Energy
How would the LSST have to survey the sky in order to study dark energy?
Hypervariables in the nucleus of galaxies
A search expedition on the lookout for tidal disruption events led to something else altogether.