A Dusty Disk Points to a Potential Planet
Rings and gaps in TWA 7’s debris disk suggested a planet might be lurking nearby. JWST observations may have revealed the hidden world.
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From Globs to Gravitational Waves: A Simulated Cosmic Choreography
Astrobites reports on how we might be able to observe gravitational wave signals from intermediate-mass black holes in binary systems with stellar-mass black holes.
Examining Earendel: Is the Most Distant Lensed Star Actually a Cluster?
An incredible beacon from the first billion years of the universe, Earendel has been touted as the most distant single star ever seen — but it might not be a single star at all.
Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Emission on the Extragalactic Express: A Mystery
Astrobites reports on the three galactic suspects in the case of an ultra-high-energy neutrino.
Potential Discovery of a World Next Door
JWST provides new evidence that one of our nearest neighbor stars, Alpha Centauri A, might host a giant planet in its habitable zone.
Supermassive Black Holes and Stripped Subgiants: Significant Signals for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors
When a supermassive black hole captures a significantly smaller object, the interaction could produce gravitational waves that have not yet been detected. A new study explores such events and how future gravitational wave detectors may be able to feel them for years to come.
Distant Little Red Dot Hosts a Huge (and Growing) Black Hole
The “little red dot” CAPERS-LRD-z9 is the most distant object to show the characteristic broad emission lines of fast-moving gas around a black hole.
What’s Going On Inside GJ 486b?
Astrobites reports on a warm, rocky exoplanet and what might be hidden beneath its atmosphere.
Blown Away by the Winds of NGC 4151
New observations from the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) show the multilayered winds of NGC 4151 in a whole new light.
Get a Kick Out of This: Researchers Waited 15 Years to Measure a Neutron Star’s Journey
Worth the wait: using observations separated by 15 years, researchers have clocked the speed of a neutron star flying through space and shed light on how these stellar remnants are launched by supernova explosions.
Monthly Roundup: Astronomy in the News
Catch up on recent astronomy news: a stellar navigation experiment, a doomed planet, an icy protostar, and a mysterious radio source.
The Black Hole Tango: Kicks and Spins in Hierarchical Mergers
Astrobites reports on the intricate spin distributions created by recoil kicks from merging black holes.