Monthly Roundup: Updates on Three Notable Transients
What’s new with AT 2024wpp, GRB 250702B, and GW231123? Get updates on these three exceptional astrophysical transients in today’s Monthly Roundup.
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Do Black Hole Flares Generate Neutrinos?
Researchers search for a connection between short-lived black hole accretion events and neutrinos — elusive, neutral, nearly massless particles.
Ia’m Just Getting Started: A Type Ia Supernova’s First Day
Astrobites reports on simulations that might help astronomers identify double-detonation supernovae early in their evolution.
Featured Image: Rare Giant Galaxies
How do giant low-surface-brightness galaxies form? New research investigates two galactic specimens to search for clues.
Satellite Surplus Around Dwarf Galaxy DDO 161
A satellite-rich dwarf galaxy poses a potential problem for current cosmological models.
Investigating a Polluted White Dwarf
JWST spectra illuminate the composition of the debris disk around GD 362, one of the most polluted white dwarfs known.
A Triple Black Hole System Caught in the Act of Self-Quenching
Astrobites reports on a cosmic drama in action: three active black holes, tangled jets, and fading light.
Mapping a Molecular Building Block in a Pre-Stellar Core
Astronomers search for a simple organic molecule in Lynds 1544, a cold, dense clump of gas that will one day become a star.
JWST Spies a Potential Microlensed Massive Binary Star System
A chance alignment between galaxies allows astronomers to study a single star system as it was when the universe was just 6 billion years old.
Teegarden’s Star b: (Almost) Too Hot to Handle?
Astrobites reports on the potential habitability of Teegarden’s Star b, a promising Earth-like planet.
Featured Image: Hubble Revisits the Crab Nebula
How has the Crab Nebula supernova remnant changed since the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1999–2000?
We Have Visitors: Interstellar Material from Nearby Debris Disks
A recent study looks to the nearest rubble-ridden systems for the potential origins of interstellar objects that have visited our solar system.