New Discoveries Fill the Quasar Gap
Quasars are cleverly camouflaged at some high redshifts, making them tough to spot. Now there’s a way to detect these distant monsters in spite of their disguise.
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Baby Galaxies Blowing Bubbles
Astrobites reports on the galaxies that blew the first ionized bubbles in the early universe, ending the Dark Ages.
PACMan to Help Sort Hubble Proposals
Every year, astronomers submit over a thousand proposals requesting time on the Hubble Space Telescope. A computer program may help sort these proposals in the future.
The Search for Ringed Exoplanets
Are planetary rings as common in our galaxy as they are in our solar system? A new study shows how to hunt for them — and then does!
ALMA Examines a Distant Quasar Host
A team of scientists has used ALMA to learn more about the host galaxy of the most distant quasar known.
Fast and Furious Planet Predictions
Sometimes, computers are too slow to get the job done. Astrobites reports on a faster way to predict whether planetary systems are stable.
Featured Image: Mini-Disks in a Black-Hole Binary
New simulations show how gas is passed back and forth between the accretion disks surrounding the two black holes in a binary system.
An Exo-Venus in the Solar Neighborhood
Why is Earth hospitable to life and Venus not? Kepler-1649b, a newly discovered exo-Venus, may help us figure this out!
Counting Rogue Asteroids and Comets
How many comets, asteroids, and planetary bodies are floating through interstellar space, not gravitationally bound to any solar system?
Same Ol’ Same Ol’? Galaxy Clusters Across Cosmic Time
Astrobites reports on X-ray studies of galaxy clusters, which tell us how the extremely hot gas is distributed within these gigantic structures.
Observations from Sunrise
In 2013, a team of scientists gathered in Sweden to launch a balloon carrying the largest solar telescope to leave Earth. Now they’re sharing what they learned from the flight!
Challenging the Model for Galactic Bulges
What determines how much mass will end up in the bulge and the black hole at the center of a Milky-Way-like galaxy?