Challenging a Plasma Assumption
A recent study calls into question a fundamental assumption used to model space plasmas.
A recent study calls into question a fundamental assumption used to model space plasmas.
A new study uses clues from black hole spins to explore how binary black holes came to be paired together in the first place.
Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of an accretion disk that formed after a supermassive black hole tore apart a hapless star.
A new study explores whether there are any exoplanets orbiting the well-observed NANOGrav pulsars.
Getting star catalogs out of telescope images is a tricky affair. But a recent technique promises improvements on existing catalogs, and it could be widely applicable as large-scale astronomical surveys begin.
Sometimes real exoplanet detections are accidentally discarded by the automated vetting pipeline. One such error was just discovered: a habitable-zone Earth-like planet candidate.
Astrobites reports on how the universe can grow a giant galaxy by a redshift of z ~ 2.
When primordial gas clouds collapse and fragment in the early universe, the resulting massive stars may form with friends.
Pulsars in distant globular clusters are a challenge to detect — but it’s a job made easier by the world’s largest filled-aperture radio telescope.
An airplane-borne telescope is being used to learn more about why the red supergiant Betelgeuse suddenly dimmed in recent months.
Fast radio bursts are among the most dramatic phenomena in the universe, but we still don’t know what causes them. Does FRB 181112 hold the key? Astrobites reports.
A recent study explores how SpaceX’s Starlink satellites and other megaconstellations will impact astronomical observations in the future.