Brian Koberlein

Astrophysicist and Author

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Don’t Blink
Alien civilizations may evolve so quickly that they are only detectable for a blink of cosmic time.
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Pristine-ish
Astronomers find a nearly metal-free star in our own back yard, which raises questions about star formation.
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Bad Hair Day
Black have no hair, but the material surrounding them does, and the two can interact in unusual ways.
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The Darkening Limb
We can discover exoplanets when they transit their star, but we can learn even more if we know the star’s dark edge.
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Less Than Super
Observations from Chandra show that Little Red Dots aren’t super-Eddington.
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Live and in Color
The Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole in multiple radio colors.
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A Long Story
The origin of long gamma ray bursts may be more complicated than we thought.
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The Evolving Dark
A new model suggests that evolving dark matter could solve the Hubble tension problem.