Not All Black Holes That Wander Are Lost — and Now, Some May Have Been Found
Astrobites reports on a search for meandering modern-day analogues of the ancient building blocks of supermassive black holes.
Three-dimensional modeling of a passing solar storm reveals a new twist to the event’s magnetic field.
Researchers use fractal geometry for the first time to simulate realistic emission nebulae around hot young stars.
Spacecraft at Earth and on the way to Mars witnessed the same solar storm. What can this event tell us about how high-energy particles navigate the solar system?
Astrobites reports on efforts to map the in-depth star formation history of one of our galactic neighbors.
Could a giant planet cause the kinks and spirals seen in the disk around a young star?
What happens when stars and stellar-mass black holes meet in the disks surrounding supermassive black holes?
Astrobites reports on how dark gaps in quasar spectra can help fill in gaps in our knowledge of reionization.
A new special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series introduces the second data release of an expansive spectroscopic survey.