Interested in black holes or the Galactic Center check out Thursday sessions at #AAS243 by MovingUniverse Lab grads, Natasha Abrams (440.05) and Anna Pusack (420.05). Lots of new results!

Friend of mine owns and spouse is chef at Gris-Gris: grisgrisnola.com (not in French Quarter).

First author, Casey Lam, put together the known population of Milky Way black holes:

Update on the gravitational lensing black hole, OB110462. It is definitely a black hole and our revised photometric and astrometric analysis gives a mass of 6 +/- 1 Sun. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03302

ESA’s Euclid mission has reached L2 where JWST and Gaia are waiting 💕 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Follow_Euclid_s_first_months_in_space

AstroTechers working on grating design principles and inclusive teamwork skills today at #AstroTech!

The young stars orbiting the supermassive black hole probably formed in a complex dynamical structure... not just a vanilla "ball of gas".

And the structure looks asymmetric. That means there are more stars on one side of the orbital plane than another. This makes us think it is not a plane so much as a stream of stars perhaps recently disrupted.

This Plane 2 structure might be associated with some stars in the IRS 13 clump of stars:

We have known for sometime that the young stars' orbits aren't randomly distributed. There is a preferred disk of young stars that contains 20-30% of the young stars in the region. But, in our new paper, we have found a second structure!