Supermassive black hole wake or bulgeless edge-on galaxy?
A recent paper reported the serendipitous discovery of a thin linear object interpreted as the trail of star-forming regions left behind by a runaway...
Supermassive black hole wake or bulgeless edge-on galaxy?. II. Order-of-magnitude analysis of the two physical scenarios
Context. A recently discovered thin long object aligned with a nearby galaxy could be the stellar wake induced by the passage of a supermassive black hole (SMBH...
Supermassive black holes in the EAGLE Universe. Revealing the observables of their growth
We investigate the evolution of supermassive black holes in the `Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments' (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamic...
Supernova 2014J at M82 - II. Direct analysis of a middle-class Type Ia supernova
We analyse a time series of optical spectra of SN 2014J from almost two weeks prior to maximum to nearly four months after maximum. We perform our analysis...
Proto-neutron stars forming a few seconds after core-collapse supernovae are hot and dense environments where hyperons can be efficiently produced by weak...
Protoneutron stars formed during core-collapse supernovae are hot and dense environments that contain a sizable population of muons. If these interact with new...
Supernovae 2016bdu and 2005gl, and their link with SN 2009ip-like transients: another piece of the puzzle
Supernova (SN) 2016bdu is an unusual transient resembling SN 2009ip. SN 2009ip-like events are characterized by a long-lasting phase of erratic variability...
Supernovae and Their Expanding Blast Waves during the Early Evolution of Galactic Globular Clusters
Our arguments deal with the early evolution of Galactic globular clusters and show why only a few of the supernovae (SNe) products were retained within globular...
Supershells as probe particles for the study of the galactic spin orientation
Here we describe a method that can be used to derive, with a high degree of confidence, the direction of the rotation axis of a galaxy. The method is based on...