Black Holes Grow Better with a Friend
Astrobites reports on observations of dwarf galaxies that show how a buddy galaxy can help trigger phases of rapid black hole growth.
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Shedding Light on Candles That Burn a Bit Too Bright
Astrobites reports on how standard candles might not be quite as standard as previously thought, and how a particular type of supernova is making a name for itself.
Rapid Microlensing Classification: A Lonely SOBH Story
Astrobites reports on how we can use simulations of stellar populations to rapidly estimate the identity of the lensing object in a microlensing event.
An aMACEing Set of Radio Galaxy Flares
Astrobites reports on two mysterious flares detected from a radio galaxy by the brand new MACE gamma-ray telescope.
Twenty Thousand Stars Later, They Didn’t Find a Single Planet (and That’s Cool, Too!)
Astrobites reports on a study that shows that hot stars seem to host fewer small planets than their cooler stellar cousins.
Them’s the (Balmer) Breaks
Astrobites reports on what might be powering the strange, puzzling young galaxies known as little red dots.
Baby Galaxies Love to Take 100-Million-Year Naps
Astrobites reports on the star-forming histories of early galaxies and galaxies that form their stars in bursts interspersed with lulls.
A Little Red Dot by Any Other Name Would Smell Just like a Green Pea!?
Astrobites reports on whether green pea galaxies are the local counterparts of the famous little red dots that are found in the early universe.
Feeding CAMELS: An Exploration of Galactic Feedback Effects in Simulations
Astrobites reports on the complicated effects of black hole and stellar feedback in cosmological simulations.
Life Is Like a Box of Potential Biosignatures
Astrobites reports on how habitable exoplanets resembling Earth in its younger years might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory.