Gravitationally Lensed Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Around Black Holes
Gravitational-wave detectors have spotted dozens of merging black hole pairs. New research explores whether any of these collisions could have happened in the disk around an accreting supermassive black hole.
A Black Hole’s Puzzling X-Ray Bursts
A supermassive black hole awakened seven years ago, and it’s now behaving in a way astronomers can’t explain.
The Oldest Starlight
Astrobites reports on whether JWST’s most extreme high-redshift galaxy candidates aren’t galaxies at all, but the explosive deaths of the very first stars.
Monthly Roundup: Science of the Sun
Researchers search for the tiniest coronal jets, explore the Sun’s behavior from centuries ago, and examine space weather forecasts in this month’s Roundup.
How Galaxies Grow Up
A massive survey of images collected by JWST is shedding light on how galaxies grow and evolve.
Researchers explore how the tilt of merging galaxies can impact the eventual collision of their supermassive black holes.
Astrobites reports on a new method to find the galaxies hosting the universe’s first generation of stars.
Interacting galaxies, sparkling starbursts, and strange structures abound in new images from the Hubble Arp Galaxy Survey.
Researchers have detected water vapor around a B[e] supergiant star for the first time, indicating a likely binary companion for LHA 115-S 18.