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A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability

A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability

Update: 2025-05-14
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We get lucky and catch a rogue supermassive black hole in the act of slurping up a star as it meanders through a distant galaxy. Closer to home, the detection of a second trinary, or triple, system in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune bolsters the streaming instability theory of planet formation. We talk about all that and what it has to do with the Tour de France, as well as space news and trivia.

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A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability

A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability

Josh Colwell, Addie Dove, Jim Cooney, Audrey Martin