Feeding Black Holes Through Galactic Bars
Galactic bars channel gas into the central regions of spiral galaxies to birth new stars. Astrobites reports on whether they are also responsible for lighting up their black holes.
Galactic bars channel gas into the central regions of spiral galaxies to birth new stars. Astrobites reports on whether they are also responsible for lighting up their black holes.
Neptune’s moon system is not what we would expect for a gas giant in our solar system — and its largest moon, Triton, may be to blame.
Only a small fraction of the cold hydrogen gas in the local universe is molecular gas, able to directly fuel star formation. But is this also true at earlier times in our universe?
RNAAS is a new home for your brief science communications that are likely to be interesting or useful to members of the astronomical community.
Astrobites reports on how we can better understand the signatures in exoplanet atmospheres — something that we can use in our search for life on other planets.
Gas and dust can get in the way of our view of the Milky Way’s center! A new study uses tens of millions of stars to map this extinction.
Astrobites reports on the unusually behaving pulsar PSR J1023+0038.
It seems like science is increasingly being done with advanced detectors on enormous ground- and space-based telescopes. One might wonder: is there anything left to learn from observations made with small telescopes?
Astrobites reports on a new Neptune-like planet discovered orbiting in a close binary system.
How do the supermassive black holes that live at the centers of galaxies influence their environments?
Growing a planet from a dust grain is hard work! A new study explores how vortices in protoplanetary disks can assist this process.
How do stars mix chemicals in their interiors, leading to the abundances we measure at their surfaces?