In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss why dark matter halos have a Universal density profile, how to age-date Pluto's surface with craters, delayed Pop III star formation, dwarf candidates in the UNIONS survey, a problem with Europium and whether Little Red Dots are really AGN. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

Read this episodes papers through the links below!

Collisionless relaxation to quasi-steady state attractors in cold dark matter halos: origin of the universal NFW profile - Uddipan Banik, Amitava Bhattacharjee

Pluto Geologic Map: Use of Crater Data to Understand Age Relationships - Kelsi N. Singer et al.

Bursty or heavy? The surprise of bright Population III systems in the Reionization era - Alessandra Venditti et al.

Galaxies OBserved as Low-luminosity Identified Nebulae (GOBLIN): a catalog of 43,000 high-probability dwarf galaxy candidates in the UNIONS survey - Nick Heesters et al.

Europium, we have a problem. Modelling r-process enrichment across Local Group galaxies - Marco Palla et al.

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions - María de las Mercedes Carranza Escudero

This episode, Michelle and Payel are very on-theme as they discuss whether Little Red Dots can be explained by super Eddington accretion; the high abundances of nitrogen to oxygen in the most distant galaxies and whether this is tied to globular cluster formation; the stellar graveyard in galaxies, and claims of signs of life in distant world. Listen below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!

Check out this episode's papers on the arXiv below!

Super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift quasar hosts: black-hole driven outflows, galaxy quenching, and the nature of Little Red Dots - Giada Quadri et al.

Connecting JWST discovered N/O-enhanced galaxies to globular clusters: Evidence from chemical imprints - Xihan Ji et al

Insufficient evidence for DMS and DMDS in the atmosphere of K2-18 b. From a joint analysis of JWST NIRISS, NIRSpec, and MIRI observations - R. Luque et al.

Chandra Rules Out Super-Eddington Accretion For Little Red Dots - Andrea Sacchi and Akos Bogdan

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at zspec=14.44 Confirmed with JWST - Rohan Naidu et al

Stellar population modelling of neutron stars and black holes: spatially-resolved graveyards in MaNGA/SDSS-IV galaxies - Claudia Maraston et al.

In this episode, Michelle and Payel discuss whether wandering intermediate black holes are mythical or not, how planes of satellites may form from cosmic accretion, how to form double hot Jupiters, whether Kelper's supernova remnant is an 'alien', whether Unions I is the faintest star cluster or the faintest galaxy, and just how old our globular clusters are. Listen below or check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You can check out all the papers we discuss this episode using the links below!

Wandering intermediate-mass black holes in Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological simulations: myth or reality? - Floor van Donkelaar

Zippers and Twisters: Planes of Satellite Galaxies Emerge from Whirling and Shocking Gas Streams in the Cosmic Web - Janvi P. Madhani et al.

Double Hot Jupiters Through ZLK Migration - Yurou Liu, Tiger Lu and Malena Rice

Alien-Type-Ia supernovae from the Milky Way merger history and one possible candidate -- Kepler's supernova - Wenlang He et al.

Reevaluating UMa3/U1: star cluster or the smallest known galaxy? - Scot Devlin et al.

The Absolute Age of Milky Way Globular Clusters - Jiaqi Ying et al.