Highlights from AAS Nova: 16–29 March 2025

AAS Nova provides brief highlights of recently published articles from the AAS journals, i.e., The Astronomical Journal (AJ), The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, The Planetary Science Journal, and Research Notes of the AAS. The website's intent is to gain broader exposure for AAS authors and to provide astronomy researchers and enthusiasts with summaries of recent, interesting research across a wide range of astronomical fields.

The following are the AAS Nova highlights from the past two weeks; follow the links to read more, or visit AAS Nova for more posts. You can also sign up to receive emails each time a new post is published.

28 March 2025
Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole May Have Had a Companion in the Past
Recent simulations tackle the question of how dense star clusters like those spotted by JWST formed in the early universe.

26 March 2025
Crafting Compact Clusters in the Early Universe
Recent simulations tackle the question of how dense star clusters like those spotted by JWST formed in the early universe.

25 March 2025
An aMACEing Set of Radio Galaxy Flares
Astrobites reports on two mysterious flares detected from a radio galaxy by the brand new MACE gamma-ray telescope.

24 March 2025
Featured Image: Green Seeds at Cosmic Noon
An exploration of galaxies during our universe’s star-formation heyday reveals a population of bright, compact regions called green seeds.

21 March 2025
A Late-Stage Infall Renovation: Mapping the Circumstellar Disk of AB Aurigae
What happens when a young star captures some extra gas and dust? New observations of a dusty disk reveals how a late-stage infall event may be influencing planet formation in AB Aurigae.

19 March 2025
Gravitationally Lensed Gravitational Waves from Black Holes Around Black Holes​​​​​​​
Gravitational-wave detectors have spotted dozens of merging black hole pairs. New research explores whether any of these collisions could have happened in the disk around an accreting supermassive black hole.

18 March 2025
Twenty Thousand Stars Later, They Didn’t Find a Single Planet (and That’s Cool, Too!)
Astrobites reports on a study that shows that hot stars seem to host fewer small planets than their cooler stellar cousins.

17 March 2025
Fifteen Years of X-Rays from Andromeda’s Supermassive Black Hole
What has the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbor been up to? The Chandra X-ray Observatory provides all the details.

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