New Insights from LIGO/Virgo’s Merging Black Holes
What’s the big picture behind the nearly 50 detected mergers of compact objects? The second gravitational-wave catalog is officially out — and the population statistics are in!
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Finding Just the Right Type of Detonation
Type Ia supernovae show enormous variety, but they may all form in the same way. If so, what mechanism produces them?
Dwarfs from ELVES: The Structure of Dwarf Satellite Galaxies
How does the structure of the smallest galaxies vary with different environments? Astrobites reports on investigations via the ELVES survey.
A Highly Eccentric Journey
Astrobites reports on new constraints on the migration of Neptune in the early solar system.
What Fast Radio Bursts Tell Us About Galaxy Halos
Scientists are leveraging enigmatic bursts of radiation to learn about the hot, ionized gas around the Milky Way and other galaxies.
A Relic Black Hole in a Dwarf Galaxy
Could the recent discovery of a supermassive black hole in a low-mass galaxy be just the tip of the iceberg?
Inflating HII Regions Cause Star Formation to Pop
Astrobites explores what happens as balloons of ionized hydrogen inflate in space.
Featured Image: Identifying Reconnecting Fields
How can we identify the locations where magnetic fields break and reconnect in turbulent 3D plasmas?
Seeing Star Formation at Cosmic Noon
A recent study examines gas flows around galaxies during the most intense time of star formation in the universe.
Accretion in Action in an Angled Disk
How does material move through an accretion disk to the young star at its center? Surprising detections from a fortuitously angled disk provide clues.
Molecular Clouds All the Way Down
Astrobites discusses whether a well-known correlation in star formation holds on the scale of a single molecular cloud.
Jumping the Gap to Probe Large Black Holes
Gravitational-wave detectors may soon find a new population of huge black holes. What can we hope to learn from them?