September 26, 2024
This is a fun IMBH story we worked out when Kostas and Luca were visiting last summer from JHU. What if (one day, who knows) we observe a highly spinning intermediate-mass black hole? If that happens, is going to be … Continue reading
September 23, 2024
To Stars or to gas, that is the question.Whether ’tis nobler in the hardening to sufferThe slings and arrows of passing stars,Or to dissipate against a sea of gasAnd by disk end them. To inspiral — to merge,No more; and … Continue reading
September 20, 2024
Four students just graduated with projects in our group… First, huge congrats to Cecilia Fabbri who got her MSc in Astrophysics. Cecilia (you might remember her) worked on an exciting applied statistics problem (which has already ended up in a … Continue reading
September 13, 2024
All right I think this is great (but it took me a long time to convince myself and the others that’s the case!) In gravitational-wave astronomy we measure binaries, that is, pairs of two objects. Our signals have information about … Continue reading