A New Kind of Changing-Look AGN?
Astrobites explores the unusual X-ray properties of an active galactic nucleus recently caught changing its appearance.
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Switching It Up with Solar Switchbacks
Scientists may have an explanation for the strange kinks recently observed in streams of plasma flowing off of the Sun.
Multimessenger Cosmology of the Future
The collisions of neutron stars and black holes may be the key to unlock precise measurements of the cosmological parameters that describe our universe.
Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
In 2019, Sgr A* woke up to emit a series of burps. What meal led to this indigestion?
Disentangling Milky Way Evolution
Chemical tagging without chemical abundances? Astrobites shows how a neural network can disentangle stellar data to spot a star’s origins.
Featured Image: Collecting Strong Lenses
More than 1,200 newly discovered strong gravitational lenses create cosmic arcs, rings, and copied images.
Bending Rays ‘Round the Sun
A recent study couples Cassini observations with ground-based ones to study how galactic cosmic rays interact with our Sun.
Seeking the Origins of Galactic Stellar Streams
New work has revealed the likely origins of 23 streams of stars in our galaxy’s halo.
FRBs Are Spiraling Out of Control
We’ve detected many fast radio bursts, but the journey to discover their origins is far from complete. Astrobites reports on the latest efforts.
Establishing Ages from Mars’s Craters
How old is the terrain of Mars’s surface? New research suggests our previous estimates were off.
Exploring the Host Galaxies of Changing-Look AGN
Astrobites reports on a search for changing-look active galactic nuclei. What about their host galaxies causes this change?
Event Horizon Telescope Traces Magnetic Fields Around a Black Hole
We got our first up-close look at the shadow of a black hole nearly two years ago. Now, the same telescope is giving us a fresh perspective.