Echoes of a Tidal Disruption Event
New research investigates the infrared echo from a star being ripped apart in a dusty accretion disk around a supermassive black hole.
Jupiter’s Atmosphere Holds Steady
Astronomers knew that Jupiter’s upper atmosphere could be strangely warm, but only now do they have global maps showing just where those hot spots are and how long they last.
Thanks to increasingly high-resolution images of the Sun, researchers are catching magnetic reconnection as it happens.
Astrobites reports on a black hole that’s far too massive for its host galaxy, and whether this system could ever reach “normal” proportions.
Using a neural network, researchers have discovered 3,500 candidate strong gravitational lenses in data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
After the DART spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos, a cloud of ejecta expanded outward. A recent study builds a 3D reconstruction of the ejecta and determines that it’s more complex than previous models considered.
Did the disappearance of a star in the Andromeda Galaxy signal the creation of a black hole? New infrared and X-ray data help to discern what remained after the star disappeared.
Astrobites reports on how astronomers are using JWST to figure out if star clusters are really as old as they seem.
Researchers investigate whether the Milky Way’s smallest known satellite is a tiny dwarf galaxy or a star cluster.