A team of citizen scientists compared 5.4 million pairs of astronomical images, helping researchers create a database of image similarity information that can be used to test image-search algorithms.
Astrobites reports on how researchers are preparing for future detections of merging supermassive and intermediate-mass black holes.
Two powerful telescopes examined the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed by humans, hundreds of days after the burst was first detected. What did they see?
With their extremely low surface brightness, ultra-diffuse galaxies are very difficult to detect, but a recent study has spotted one by searching for its globular clusters.
The massive nearby elliptical galaxy Messier 87 hosts one of the most-studied supermassive black holes in the universe. What have researchers recently learned about this black hole’s spin, jets, and flares?
Astrobites reports on JWST observations of a mysterious binary quasar system from cosmic noon.
The troubles continue for planets around the smallest and coolest stars: new research suggests that it’s even harder than previously suspected for these planets to hold on to their atmospheres.
Astrobites reports on the famous Bullet Cluster — what JWST observations reveal about its complex merger history and the constraints these observations place on self-interacting dark matter.
Recent observations of a well-studied but confounding galaxy provide new insights into the structure of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei.
Astrobites reports on research that explores the possibility of impacts delivering organics to the ocean worlds in our solar system.
A new fast and flexible ray-tracing algorithm aims to make the complex world of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations more approachable.
The final day of AAS 246 included discussions about solar cycle research and the current landscape for science policy and advocacy.