William Smith

Sep 5, 2024 | dcjournal.com | William Smith |Robert Popovian

The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program was designed to encourage hospitals and clinics to provide low-income patients with more charity care. Today, the program costs taxpayers billions of dollars. Still, there is far more evidence that hospitals are using the money to subsidize unrelated operations than helping those in need. There is an aphorism that says if you are going to say something deceptive, go big.

May 20, 2024 | astrobites.org | William Smith

Title: Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5 – 4.5 M⊙ Compact Object and a Neutron StarAuthors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA CollaborationStatus: published on ArXiv, Zenodo, & LIGO DCC (all open access)September 14th, 2015 may be remembered as one of the most monumental days in astronomical history.

Mar 29, 2024 | astrobites.org | William Smith

Title: Repeated mergers, mass-gap black holes, and formation of intermediate-mass black holes in nuclear star clustersAuthors: Giacomo Fragione, Bence Kocsis, Frederic A. Rasio, Joseph SilkFirst Author’s Institution: Northwestern UniversityStatus: Published in the Astrophysical Journal [Open Access] (published March 10, 2022)If black holes are like music artists, intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the indie hipster bands of the astronomy world.