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.
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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.
The Winner of the Cosmic Speed-Eating Contest
Astrobites reports on RACS J0320−35, a quasar that appears to be breaking a cosmic limit by consuming matter faster than theory should allow.
The Black Hole Meetup: EMRIs and IMRIs in the Same Active Galactic Nucleus Disk
Astrobites reports on how active galactic nucleus disks might connect black holes across the mass spectrum, setting the stage for extreme-mass-ratio and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in the same system.
Are Water Worlds Just Made of Soot?
Astrobites reports on whether the low-density planets that keep popping up in our growing collection of exoplanets are really the water worlds that we imagine them to be.
A Black Hole Egg That Forgot to Hatch
Astrobites reports on how astronomers got a closer view of the distant and mysterious little red dots.
Michelangelo in Space: A Planet Carving the Fomalhaut Debris Disk?
Astrobites reports on the Fomalhaut debris disk, which is well studied but may contain a hidden planet we haven’t seen yet.
Bumpy Road Ahead: Can Binary Interactions Make Supernovae Periodically Brighter?
Astrobites reports on simulations that explore whether a baby neutron star repeatedly diving into the envelope of its inflated companion star could be the cause of bumpy supernova light curves.
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Searching for Shifts in Variable Star Light Curves
Astrobites reports on efforts to understand how the variability of certain variable stars changes over time.
Do X-Rays Help or Hurt Massive Black Hole Formation?
Astrobites reports on how X-rays influenced the formation of the first massive black holes in the universe.