Guobin Mou

Cosmic neutrinos are ghost particles, passing freely through the Earth. The IceCube telescope in the ice of Antarctica once caught such a neutrino, and it matched an infrared flare. That flare turned out to be the moment a black hole tore a star apart in a distant galaxy.

The night sky is full of rings and bubbles, but in the radio band they look different. In data from the Australian radio telescope ASKAP, a structure has surfaced that resembles two soap bubbles blown from the same straw.