Large moons orbiting habitable-zone planets around M-dwarf stars appear to be unstable; if large moons enhance the habitability of their planets, this result has implications of the potential number of habitable planets in the galaxy.
Using three-dimensional covariant magnetohydrodynamics simulations to track the accretion of magnetized gas onto black holes, researchers have probed how black hole jets extract spin energy.
Simulations show that the accretion disks that form in nova and Type Ia supernova progenitor systems are partially or totally destroyed by an explosion, which will impact subsequent explosions.
Rather than originating from within a distant source, the neutrino parent of an extremely high-energy muon detected in 2023 may have arisen from the interaction of a cosmic ray and the cosmic background radiation.
A novel source detection framework employing neural networks resulted in a 27% increase in the number of detected sources compared to existing pipelines when applied to simulated data.
Tackling the question of how electrons are accelerated to high energies in solar flares, researchers find that no one mechanism is solely responsible; instead, a variety of mechanisms work in concert.