👍 Recommended reading 📄

Recent post on astrobites.org about a paper led by a PhD student from our institute.

The Black Hole Tango: Kicks and Spins in Hierarchical Mergers

“The room is large and densely packed. As you twirl across the floor, someone extends their hand, inviting you to dance. The two of you spin around each other, the tension building with every step. As you draw closer and closer, you realize this isn’t a ballroom, and you’re not people. This is outer space, and you and your partner are black holes, spiraling toward one another in one of the most energetic events in the universe: a black hole merger. (…)”

📄 https://astrobites.org/2025/04/07/gw_kicks_impact_bh_spins_in_hierarchical_mergers/

#astrobites #astrodon #BlackHoles #astrophysics #paper

An excellent overview of gravitational-wave astronomy from PTAs to ground-based gravitational wave interferometers by Sumeet Kulkarni and Jessie Thwaites

https://astrobites.org/2023/11/08/guide-to-gravitational-waves/

#GravitationalWaves #Astrobites

Achievement unlocked! ✅ Our #jwstgoals #ers1328 #NGC7469 paper is featured on #AASNova #astrobites -- my favorite external perspective of our #JWST study of AGN outflow 🤩

https://aasnova.org/2022/11/29/zooming-in-on-an-active-galactic-nucleus-outflow-with-jwst/

Been catching up reading #astrobites.

Nearly missed this little gem about Penrose Diagrams.

Prof. Sir Roger Penrose did this seminal work in 1963, now, these diagrams are an important tool in #physics when trying to understand causality in general relativity.

Sir Roger continues to do important, interesting, and somtimes controversial work in physics, #maths, #consciousness & #computability.

Ironing out Infinities with the Conformal Diagram | astrobites
https://astrobites.org/2020/11/23/conformal-diagram/

#qotojournal