Early Supermassive Black Holes Aren’t All Monsters
Astrobites reports on a search for hidden supermassive black holes in the early universe.
New research shows how the path a spacecraft takes through a coronal mass ejection influences our understanding of the eruption’s properties.
Modified gravity theories typically struggle to explain the Bullet Cluster, but new research shows that a variant of modified Newtonian dynamics may be able to reproduce its famous lensing signature.
For the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has detected the decrease in brightness from a rocky planet passing behind its host star, offering a new perspective on the lava world TOI-2431b.
Massive stars near the center of a local starburst galaxy are blowing a bubble that may be starting to “pop.”
DPS 58: Days 3 and 4
Days 3 and 4 of the 58th Division for Planetary Sciences meeting brought insights from subsurface ice on Mars, discoveries of Neptune trojans, and stories of advocacy successes.
DPS 58: Days 1 and 2
News from the 58th meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS): discovering a new dwarf planet candidate in our solar system, cracking mysteries about Europa’s ice shell, clarifying our understanding of Titan’s hazy dunes, and much more.
These “Ice Giants” Have a Hot Secret
Astrobites reports on a possible piping-hot secret about the so-called “ice giant” planets in our solar system, Uranus and Neptune.
Supercritical accretion of black holes may drive the formation of enigmatic “little red dots.”