In this episode, Payel and Michelle discuss how you can slow down a galaxy’s bar, scaling relations for black holes, whether we can use intracluster light to learn about dark matter, little red dots, AI cosmologists and pasta sauce for all your plotting needs! Check out our episode – and the papers that inspired it – below.

Tidal interaction can stop galactic bars: on the LMC non-rotating bar– Óscar Jiménez-Arranz & Santi Roca-Fabrega

Evidence for evolutionary pathway-dependent black hole scaling relations – Jonathan Cohn et al.

pastamarkers 2: pasta sauce colormaps for your flavorful results – The PASTA collaboration

Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters – J. Butler et al.

Formation of the Little Red Dots from the Core-collapse of Self-interacting Dark Matter Halos – Fangzhou Jiang et al

The AI Cosmologist I: An Agentic System for Automated Data Analysis – Adam Moss