Merging Eccentric Pairs of Black Holes
What happens during chaotic interactions between black-hole binaries in star clusters? New research suggests eccentric mergers can result.
What happens during chaotic interactions between black-hole binaries in star clusters? New research suggests eccentric mergers can result.
Why is WASP-12b’s orbit decaying so rapidly? Astrobites reports on whether an unseen companion planet might be influencing this hot Jupiter’s orbit.
What’s the best way to represent the spherical sky on a flat surface? This unique octahedron-based view has its advantages.
Our Sun often exhibits a roiling surface full of activity. But how do the different types of eruptions and disturbances we see relate to one another?
A new study suggests that planets around K-dwarf stars may be the best targets in the search for signs of life.
Astrobites reports on the NICER discovery of an accreting millisecond pulsar in a record-setting, rapid orbit with a white dwarf.
A recent study explores a high-energy mystery from the supermassive black holes that dot our universal landscape.
Have the old, giant stars at the center of our galaxy gone missing, or have we just missed them?
Astrobites reports on how dim galaxies lensed by foreground clusters provide a way of measuring the reionization of our universe.
Astrobites reports on how the search for Planet Nine has revealed another unusual object in our solar system.
This infrared, false-color image reveals W51A, a giant ionized bubble in which very young, massive stars are just beginning to form.
The winds of exoplanets HAT-P-7b and CoRoT-2b blow in the opposite direction from what we expect. Could magnetic fields have something to do with this odd reversal?