In this episode, Michelle and Nicole were on-theme with their paper choices. They discuss whether and how stars from ancient globular clusters populate the stellar halo of the Milky Way, and look into research on growing massive black hole seeds in the smallest dwarf galaxies. Tune in below, on Spotify, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts

The in-situ growth of stellar-mass “light” seed black holes in nuclear star clusters – Yanlong Shi & Norman Murray

Not all nitrogen-rich field stars originate from globular clusters – Ellen I. Leitinger et al.

A Tale of Two Origins: In-Situ versus Accreted Nitrogen-Rich Field Stars in the MW – Yi Qiao et al..

Small hosts, big appetites: unveiling rapid and early low-mass black hole growth in cosmological zoom-in simulations of dwarf galaxies – Guilia Ortame et al.