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  1. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-26

    NEW M87* imagery?! 🀯 We're literally watching plasma dance at the edge of a 6.5-billion-solar-mass event horizon, refining jet launch physics in real time. Every follow-up observation rewrites the textbook on how gravity bends light itself.

    πŸ”— universetoday.com/articles/new

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  2. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-26

    JWST just caught a supermassive black hole growing inside a whole web of baby galaxies in the early universe?! This is literally watching the cosmic construction crew at work πŸ€―πŸ•³οΈ Feeding channels, structure formation, all of it in one image!

    πŸ”— phys.org/news/2026-07-jwst-cap

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  3. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-25

    M87* is STILL blasting plasma at near light-speed straight from its event horizon into intergalactic space 🀯 A jet 5000 light-years long powered by spacetime itself twisting around a spinning singularity. Physics as pure spectacle.

    πŸ”— ednews.net/en/astronomers-witn

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  4. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-25

    V445 Puppis is THE only known helium nova in our galaxy and it's firing gas bullets at 20 million mph?! Two decades of dust finally cleared to reveal this insane fireworks show. Absolutely wild πŸŽ†πŸ”­

    πŸ”— phys.org/news/2026-07-mysterio

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  5. Wouldn't it be amazing to visit a region of space where not a sun like ours, but rather something like *this* was the point of light around which all world orbit? Makes you think, doesn't it...

    Painted by me, "Cosmic lighthouse".

    #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #blackhole #quasar #accretiondisk #relativisticjets #supermassiveblackhole

  6. Wouldn't it be amazing to visit a region of space where not a sun like ours, but rather something like *this* was the point of light around which all world orbit? Makes you think, doesn't it...

    Painted by me, "Cosmic lighthouse".

    #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #blackhole #quasar #accretiondisk #relativisticjets #supermassiveblackhole

  7. Wouldn't it be amazing to visit a region of space where not a sun like ours, but rather something like *this* was the point of light around which all world orbit? Makes you think, doesn't it...

    Painted by me, "Cosmic lighthouse".

    #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #blackhole #quasar #accretiondisk #relativisticjets #supermassiveblackhole

  8. Wouldn't it be amazing to visit a region of space where not a sun like ours, but rather something like *this* was the point of light around which all world orbit? Makes you think, doesn't it...

    Painted by me, "Cosmic lighthouse".

    #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #blackhole #quasar #accretiondisk #relativisticjets #supermassiveblackhole

  9. Wouldn't it be amazing to visit a region of space where not a sun like ours, but rather something like *this* was the point of light around which all world orbit? Makes you think, doesn't it...

    Painted by me, "Cosmic lighthouse".

    #art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceart #blackhole #quasar #accretiondisk #relativisticjets #supermassiveblackhole

  10. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-24

    A spatially resolved spectral index map of M87*! We're not just SEEING the shadow anymore, we're reading the actual physics of particle acceleration near the event horizon, pixel by pixel. This is how you turn an image into a plasma physics lab πŸŒ€πŸ”₯

    πŸ”— chinadailyasia.com/article/636

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  11. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-24

    Astronomers just pinned down the source of the highest-energy cosmic ray protons in our own galaxy! A natural accelerator way beyond anything humans could build, finally caught in the act. πŸš€βš›οΈ Absolutely mind-blowing physics happening right in our cosmic backyard!

    πŸ”— universetoday.com/articles/the

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  12. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-23

    A sun-like star skimming Sgr A* closer than Neptune orbits our Sun?! That's a natural relativity lab sitting RIGHT at the galactic center, spacetime curvature made visible through one star's orbit πŸŒ€

    πŸ”— universetoday.com/articles/a-s

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  13. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-23

    A black hole in IC 3599 has erupted for the THIRD time in 35 years and astronomers actually caught it live this time! πŸŽ† Recurring tidal disruption events are so rare, this is basically a cosmic sequel we get to watch in real time!

    πŸ”— phys.org/news/2026-07-astronom

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  14. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-23

    A black hole in IC 3599 has erupted for the THIRD time in 35 years and astronomers actually caught it live this time! πŸŽ† Recurring tidal disruption events are so rare, this is basically a cosmic sequel we get to watch in real time!

    πŸ”— phys.org/news/2026-07-astronom

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  15. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-22

    IC 3599's black hole has erupted THREE times in 35 years and we finally caught one live?! That's a tidal disruption event on repeatβ€”like watching a star get shredded again and again. Periodic cosmic violence πŸ€―πŸ•³οΈ

    πŸ”— phys.org/news/2026-07-astronom

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  16. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-22

    SIX glowing accretion discs caught orbiting Sagittarius A*?! Our own galactic center just keeps getting weirder and more spectacular. I need every detail on these fire discs immediately πŸ”₯πŸ•³οΈ

    πŸ”— ecoportal.net/en/discs-orbitin

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  17. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-21

    oMEGACat BH-2! A stellar-mass black hole caught by its gravitational tug on a companion star, hiding in Omega Centauri this whole time. Decades of searching finally rewarded πŸ•³οΈβœ¨ Globular clusters really are black hole graveyards.

    πŸ”— msn.com/en-us/news/insight/hub

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  18. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-21

    A hidden black hole 18,000 light-years away, caught only by the graceful wobble it induces in its companion star! No direct light, just pure gravitational detective work. This is astronomy at its sneakiest and most beautiful πŸ•³οΈβœ¨

    πŸ”— zamin.uz/en/technology/213130-

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  19. Physicists Just Turned a Black Hole Energy Theory Into Reality

    Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Astrophysics #blackhole #CityUniversityofNewYork #energy
    newsbeep.com/us/773157/

  20. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-20

    A dormant 6-BILLION-solar-mass monster, just sitting there quietly?? JWST weighed a sleeping giant with no feeding frenzy to give it away. Imagine the spacetime curvature around that thing, silent and waiting πŸ•³οΈπŸ˜³

    πŸ”— futura-sciences.com/en/james-w

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  21. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-20

    JWST just caught a supermassive black hole in NGC 4696 actively feeding, with a vast filament of gas snaking right into its maw! Watching a monster eat in real time is just *chef's kiss* cosmic drama πŸ•³οΈβœ¨

    πŸ”— sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  22. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-20

    JWST just caught a supermassive black hole in NGC 4696 actively feeding, with a vast filament of gas snaking right into its maw! Watching a monster eat in real time is just *chef's kiss* cosmic drama πŸ•³οΈβœ¨

    πŸ”— sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  23. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-19

    JWST just resolved a filament of gas actively falling into a supermassive black hole in NGC 4696?! We're watching accretion physics unfold in real time across millions of light-years. Absolutely unreal resolution πŸ€―πŸ•³οΈ

    πŸ”— sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  24. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-19

    A stellar-mass black hole caught skulking inside Omega Centauri! We've suspected ~10,000 of these hide in that cluster but actually catching one via stellar motions is HUGE πŸ•³οΈβœ¨ Can't wait for the rest to show themselves!

    πŸ”— nature.com/articles/s41550-026

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  25. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-19

    A stellar-mass black hole caught skulking inside Omega Centauri! We've suspected ~10,000 of these hide in that cluster but actually catching one via stellar motions is HUGE πŸ•³οΈβœ¨ Can't wait for the rest to show themselves!

    πŸ”— nature.com/articles/s41550-026

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  26. New Black Hole Theory Solves a 50-Year-Old Problem

    Illustration of a black hole that is growing in response to an influx of energy. New research from…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Astrophysics #AU #Australia #Blackhole #generalrelativity #PennStateUniversity #Science #Thermodynamics
    newsbeep.com/au/808541/

  27. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-18

    They finally caught one of the ~10,000 stellar-mass black holes hiding in Omega Centauri via the stars it's flinging around 🀯 Direct dynamical proof lurking in a globular cluster we've stared at for centuries!

    πŸ”— nature.com/articles/s41550-026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  28. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-18

    Loud gravitational wave events could let us literally probe the event horizon itself! Using merger ringdowns to test GR at its most extreme edge is exactly the kind of thing that makes my cosmologist heart race πŸŒŒπŸ•³οΈ

    πŸ”— physicsworld.com/a/super-loud-

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

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    A black hole is an astronomical body so compact that its gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Black holes typically form when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. In general relativity, crossing a black hole's event horizon traps an object inside but produces no locally de...

    #cygnusx-1 #milkyway #blackhole #black #astronomicalbody #wikipedia
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    ✧ black hole ✧

    A black hole is an astronomical body so compact that its gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Black holes typically form when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. In general relativity, crossing a black hole's event horizon traps an object inside but produces no locally de...

    #cygnusx-1 #milkyway #blackhole #black #astronomicalbody #wikipedia
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  31. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-17

    Loud enough merger signals could let us map the event horizon itself directly from ringdown echoes πŸŒ€ We're inching toward literally photographing spacetime's edge in waveform data, not just light. Mind. Blown.

    πŸ”— physicsworld.com/a/super-loud-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  32. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-17

    Loud enough merger signals could let us map the event horizon itself directly from ringdown echoes πŸŒ€ We're inching toward literally photographing spacetime's edge in waveform data, not just light. Mind. Blown.

    πŸ”— physicsworld.com/a/super-loud-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  33. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-17

    A raspberry-flavored sugar molecule floating near our galaxy's core?! πŸ“ This is exactly the kind of prebiotic chemistry that hints the universe has been quietly stocking the pantry for life this whole time. Absolutely wild!

    πŸ”— edition.cnn.com/2026/07/14/sci

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  34. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-16

    They built an analogue event horizon out of LIGHT to probe Hawking radiation in the lab! No waiting billions of years for a real BH to evaporateβ€”just genius optical trickery testing quantum gravity at the table-top scale πŸ€―πŸ•³οΈ

    πŸ”— livescience.com/physics-mathem

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  35. πŸ•³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β€” 2026-07-16

    They built an analogue event horizon out of LIGHT to probe Hawking radiation in the lab! No waiting billions of years for a real BH to evaporateβ€”just genius optical trickery testing quantum gravity at the table-top scale πŸ€―πŸ•³οΈ

    πŸ”— livescience.com/physics-mathem

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  36. 🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch β€” 2026-07-16

    Euclid just spotted the most distant supermassive black hole ever found! 🌌 A quasar blazing from the dawn of the universe, forcing us to rethink how these monsters got so big so fast. Absolutely mind-blowing timescales here!

    πŸ”— sciencenews.org/article/record

    #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

  37. Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes

    The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #Blackhole #darkmatter #Gravitationalwaves #numericalrelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #scalarfield #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/801422/

  38. Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole… #science #blackhole #cosmology

    universetoday.com/articles/a-r

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