Megan Masterson

Feb 5, 2025 | nature.com | Megan Masterson |Erin Kara |Kevin B. Burdge |Iair Arcavi |Riccardo Arcodia |S. Bradley Cenko | +11 more

AbstractRecent discoveries from time-domain surveys are defying our expectations for how matter accretes onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The increased rate of short-timescale, repetitive events around SMBHs, including the recently discovered quasi-periodic eruptions1,2,3,4,5, are garnering further interest in stellar-mass companions around SMBHs and the progenitors to millihertz-frequency gravitational-wave events.