Dr. Kate Grier (Beatty)

Also this week at #AAS244: a special edition of Astronomy on Tap - Wednesday June 12th at 7pm at the Chazen Art Museum! More info: astronomyontap.org/event/aotmadis… (and yes, the museum will be open so you can look at art during intermission!)

Light from the bright disk around a black hole 10 billion light years away tells @grieratron's gang @uwastro that wind from the quasar is pushing gas out into its galaxy — giving the black hole a say in the creation of stars. news.wisc.edu/wind-from-blac…

@robwheaties Years of data from @sdssurveys @BlackHoleMapper gave the researchers a front-row seat to observe the quasar, a blue dot in the constellation Boötes called SBS 1408+544, and @grieratron says there's much more to see.

Check out some of my work with one of my students here at UW-Madison! Some fun results on quasar winds with data from @BlackHoleMapper, a part of @sdssurveys!

Everyone at #AAS244 this week, stop by the University of Wisconsin-Madison / Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (WiCOR) booth in the poster hall!! Get your own selfie with Bucky Badger, and pick up some stickers, enter a raffle for a WiCOR t-shirt, and grab other UW swag!!

A new X-ray study of over 8,000 rapidly growing black holes, combined with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations, has provided the best modeling to date of the growth of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of galaxies. More: s.si.edu/bhsim #AAS244 ⚫

Planet GJ 3470 b is cool - literally and figuratively. New work from @tgbeatty on James Webb Space Telescope data shows exciting atmospheric chemistry that will help tease apart how the planet (and others like it) were created. #aas244 news.wisc.edu/small-cool-and…

@barenakedladies So many! But I'll pick "When You Dream"

What BNL song gives you the feels? Comment below for a chance to be added to BNL's Valentine's playlist 💌

@Kevin_Hainline Ooh definitely adding these to my list,, thanks!!

AstroTwitter: I’m working on my Intro to Astro class playlist (songs I play as the students come in each day) and need songs related to each lecture topic. So far I’m a bit short on Light, Spectra, and telescopes. Any ideas? (Popular/known songs preferred but I’ll take others)

@astro_zhou That one is definitely on my list! 😀 I have a whole suite of Muse songs (Supermassive Black Hole, Starlight, Neutron Star Collision) — they are great

@joe_antognini Oh that’s perfect!! Thanks!

@grieratron Somewhere Over the Rainbow for Spectra

The 2023 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

This week's BHM science paper highlight is "The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Unusual Broad-Line Variability in a Luminous Quasar", by @loganfries Fries et al. (2023). The paper can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2301.10252 1/3

A few of our BHM team members are representing at the “Multi-wavelength AGN Structure and Cosmological Applications” conference in Nice! We’re learning about all things AGN and enjoying copious amounts of French pastries. Here we are at Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur!

On the nose 😂

@exofastupdates I could use one!!

@marianojavierd1 It will be difficult to see if you are in the city, so you will want to basically just get as far away from city lights as you can. Sorry, I don’t have any more specific recommendations in that area!

Someone could recommend places to see it near NYC?

Aurora alert! We may be able to see the Aurora from many of the northern states on Thursday! usnews.com/news/best-stat…

Taylor Lautner is the only one doing celebrity right. Take the money from your giant franchise and enjoy your quiet and unproblematic life. Marry a nice person with the same name as you. Practice your backflips in obscurity until Taylor Swift asks to see you.