Athena Nuggets

Small pieces of wisdom about scientific and technical topics with the aim of approaching Athena not only to the scientific community but also to the non-experts.

#AthenaNuggets 4: How Much Energy do Growing Supermassive Black Holes Dump in their Host Galaxies and how is it Deposited?

06 Oct 2016

Massimo Cappi¹ & Gabriele Ponti²

(1) IASF/INAF Bologna

(2) Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

Massive galaxies...

#AthenaNuggets 3: Hunting for Hidden Feeding Monsters in Galaxies

07 Sep 2016

Francisco J. Carrera (IFCA, CSIC-UC)

In recent years astronomers have been puzzled by a tantalizing result.

#AthenaNuggets 2: Supermassive Black Holes Devouring Stars

01 Sep 2016

Peter G. Jonker, Radboud University Nijmegen - SRON

For several decades, astronomers have speculated that a hapless star could wander...

#AthenaNuggets 1: Baby Black Holes at the Cosmic Dawn of the Energetic Universe

17 Jun 2016

Andrea Comastri¹,Giorgio Lanzuisi², James Aird³

(1) INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna

(2) U di Bologna

(3)...