Hunting for a Dark Matter Wake
As the Large Magellanic Cloud plows through the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, it may leave telltale signs of its passage.
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A Discovery of a Triple AGN System
Astrobites reports on a newly detected triple system of supermassive black holes feeding at the centers of merging galaxies.
A New Measurement of Turbulence
A new study brings us a little closer to understanding a complex phenomenon that reaches across environments and scales in our universe.
A Standard of Black Hole Mergers
How can the gravitational waves from black hole mergers help us understand the universe’s evolution?
Lessons from a Quartet of Newborn Planets
A set of four baby planets discovered around a young Sun-like star may provide insight into how planetary systems form and evolve.
Ancient Aurorae: Assyrian and Babylonian Astrologers Recorded the Oldest-Known Solar Storms
Astrobites reports on possible depictions of auroral activity found in ancient cuneiform tablets.