From Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan @shalinikv.bsky.social : Can black holes light up the high redshift Universe? …and as a follow up, could they be a candidate for dark matter? 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/25/c...

Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the origins of the unusual green structure surrounding the active galaxy NGC 5972. aasnova.org/2025/07/18/w... 🔭

From Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan @shalinikv.bsky.social : A Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe... What can it tell us about how black holes might have first formed? 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/11/a...

I have a new paper on arXiv today! 🌠 As galaxies move through space, they can lose stars and gas to their environment, forming spectacular tails—but that’s not the whole story. Deep inside, supermassive black holes are at work too, shaping their evolution. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.05474

From Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan @shalinikv.bsky.social : Read more about the origins of the remarkable structure of NGC 5972. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/04/26/written-in-the-gas-jet-feedback-in-a-voorwerp-galaxy/

From Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan @social.shalinikv.com: New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, named after a Greek goddess. ☄️✨🔭 astrobites.org/2025/03/11/a...

My first article on Astrobites! 🎇

When stars become too heavy, they let go of eveything that became too much to carry. But messes can be beautiful too. Sometimes, stars need to explode as supernovae in order to be reborn as something more exquisite: www.instagram.com/nasa/p/DEF3I...