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.

This episode, Michelle and Payel delve into the latest constraints on mixed dark matter from the Lyman alpha forest, what happens to stars that get a little too close to a black hole, how machine learning can help identify stars likely to host an Earth-like planet, studying the dark ages from the Moon and witnessing the birth of nuclear star clusters! Check out the episode and papers below!

Constraining Mixed Dark Matter models with high redshift Lyman-alpha forest data - Olga Garcia-Gallego et al.

Black Hole Survival Guide: Searching for Stars in the Galactic Center That Endure Partial Tidal Disruption - Rewa Clark Bush et al.

Earth-like planet predictor: A machine learning approach - Jeanne Davoult et al.

Detecting the 21 cm Signal of the Cosmic Dark Ages - Willow Smith and Jonathan Pober

Evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies - Mélina Poulain et al.

In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss how you can slow down a galaxy’s bar, scaling relations for black holes, whether we can use intracluster light to learn about dark matter, little red dots, AI cosmologists and pasta sauce for all your plotting needs! Check out our episode – and the papers that inspired it – below.

Tidal interaction can stop galactic bars: on the LMC non-rotating bar– Óscar Jiménez-Arranz & Santi Roca-Fabrega

Evidence for evolutionary pathway-dependent black hole scaling relations – Jonathan Cohn et al.

pastamarkers 2: pasta sauce colormaps for your flavorful results – The PASTA collaboration

Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters – J. Butler et al.

Formation of the Little Red Dots from the Core-collapse of Self-interacting Dark Matter Halos – Fangzhou Jiang et al

The AI Cosmologist I: An Agentic System for Automated Data Analysis – Adam Moss