Modeling the Unknown: A New Tool for Radio Bursts
How do you model an observation when you aren’t sure of its source? Radio astronomers have a new answer to that question: a tool called “fitburst.”
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Seeking the Sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
New research examines whether the sources of the highest-energy photons could also be the sources of the highest-energy charged particles.
To Inspiral or Not to Inspiral
Astrobites reports on efforts to detect the shrinking orbits of close-in hot-Jupiter exoplanets.
Probing for Rocks in an Ice Giant’s Core
How much of Uranus’s icy core is made of rock? Researchers propose a new method to make this measurement using a probe of the Uranian atmosphere.
Studying a Guest Star’s Annual Appearances
With T Coronae Borealis expected to rise to naked-eye visibility any day now, recurrent novae are in the news. To learn more about these events, check out today’s article about a recurrent nova in a neighboring galaxy.
Huge Survey vs. Tiny Space Junk
One of the largest surveys of the sky is about to begin. But will tiny bits of space junk doom its carefully laid plans even before the first images are taken?
Little Red Dots and Big Black Holes
Astrobites reports on a study that estimates how many galaxies with massive black holes are likely to be present in the early universe.
Featured Image: A Disk Disturbed by Stellar Explosions
Simulations explore how supernovae can shake up and eject gas from a starburst galaxy.
Astronomers Reopen the Mystery of a Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
The exoplanet 8 UMi b should have been swallowed by its host star — and new research may have upended the standing hypothesis for how the planet escaped its fate.
Sampling Over-Massive Black Holes at Cosmic Noon
For the first time, researchers have examined a population of black holes that may fill in the gap between over-massive black holes in the early universe and those present today.
A Vampire’s Sandwich Filled with Gas and Dust
Astrobites reports on the serendipitous discovery of Dracula’s Chivito, possibly the largest known protoplanetary disk.
Finding Black Holes Around Black Holes
The accretion disks surrounding supermassive black holes could be home to millions of stellar-mass black holes. How can we tell if a disk hosts these black holes?